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Contact: Dr. Klaus Jaeger
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Caption: The Hercules Dwarf Galaxy has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy at a distance of 430,000 Light Years appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar.
Credit: LBT Corporation
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Related news release: Why is the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy so flat?
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