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Date: 29 April 2008 Depicts: Size comparison of the Milky Way and an ultracompact galaxy Copyright: NASA, ESA and A. Feild (STScI) Show in archive: true
Illustration showing a comparison of the sizes of the Milky Way and one of nine compact galaxies found with Hubble and Keck.