About This Lesson
The Milky Way galaxy has new neighbor or, more accurately, a newly discovered neighbor. The Milky Way is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies. Our neighborhood includes the famous Andromeda galaxy that we see in many photos, as well as other smaller objects. A Russian-American team using the Hubble Space telescope has been painstakingly reviewing the telescope’s data to map our cluster. Now we have a tiny dwarf galaxy to add to our neighborhood list. The new galaxy, named KKs3 can be found in the southern sky near the constellation of Hydrus.
