Hubble Spots Faint Dwarf Satellite Galaxy

At the center of this image is an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy named Donatiello II. It is a patchy object made up of a few clumps of stars! The Hubble telescope recently captured this image of the newly found galaxy. It was discovered by an amateur astronomer named Giuseppe Donatiello, who spotted it using data from a project known as the Dark Energy Survey.

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Mutlu-Pakdil; Acknowledgment: G. Donatiello

Music: Venus by Gustav Holst

This is an old short that has been repurposed for fullscreen.

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