ISOHDFS 27 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation
Tucana, and was discovered in the
Hubble Deep Field South survey. It is the most massive spiral galaxy found in the survey,
measuring in diameter.
It is located approximately from
Earth
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and has a mass greater than 1000 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it about four times as massive as the
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...
.
It was once thought to be the largest spiral galaxy in the universe,
but it has since been dethroned by
NGC 6872
NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, is a large barred spiral galaxy, barred spiral galaxy of galaxy morphological classification, type ' in the constellation Pavo (constellation), Pavo. It is from Earth and is approximately five billion y ...
.
See also
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List of galaxies
External links
"Massive spiral galaxy ISOHDFS 27"by the European Southern Observatory
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SIMBAD
SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) is an astronomical database of objects beyond the Solar System. It is maintained by the Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France.
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References
Spiral galaxies
Tucana (constellation)
Astronomical objects discovered in 2000
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