Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors

George's Random Astronomical Object

Hydrus I is a very small, ultrafaint dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way that was accidentally (or, to use the technical term, serendipitously) found by the Dark Energy Survey.

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