Largest-known spiral galaxy crowned

Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now astronomers have crowned it the largest-known spiral.

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