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Hubble and Chandra Find Evidence for Densest Galaxy in Nearby Universe
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013: Astronomers may have found the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located near a massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, also called M60, about 54 million light-years from Earth. This composite image shows M60 and the region around it, where data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory are pink and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are red, green, and blue.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble and Chandra Find Evidence for Densest Galaxy in Nearby Universe. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001370.
