An Image of HSC J1631+4426 (IMAGE)

W. M. Keck Observatory

An Image of HSC J1631+4426

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An image of HSC J1631+4426, an extremely metal-poor nearby galaxy that broke the record for having the lowest oxygen abundance.

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Credit: NAOJ/Kojima et al.

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