ULAS J0015 01
ULAS J0015+01 is the designation given to a star discovered on July 10, 2014 as the farthest star in bound of the gravitational attraction of the Milky Way galaxy. It is estimated to lie at 900,000 light-years from the Earth, beyond the reaches of the Magellanic Clouds. Another star, ULAS J0744+25, was a bit closer. These stars are thought to be remnants of either the Milky Way's creation, or the merging of it with another small galaxy. Discovery ULAS J0015+01 was discovered on the 10th of July, 2014 with the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Both of these stars being cool red giants, they are extremely bright which is one of the key factors in their discovery. Their distance was estimated with a number of different techniques, which all pointed towards 900,000 light years away. Distance ULAS J0015+01 is, at the current time, 900,000 light years away from the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way's disk is 180,000 light years in diameter, putting it far ...
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