The discovery of new super galaxies is 160,000 times brighter than the sun

This galaxy is the 4th largest satellite orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.

British astronomers have discovered a super bright galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. This place is called Crater 2 and lies 380,000 light-years from Earth.

Crater 2, though not visible to the naked eye, is very big.(Photo: AFP).

Gabriel Torrealba, Sergey Koposov, Vasily Belokurov and Mike Irwin from Cambridge University, made this remarkable discovery after analyzing the image taken by the VLT telescope Survey in the high mountains of northern Chile.

In the article in the Royal Astronomical Society's Monthly Notice, the research team presented some key issues related to this new discovery.Crater 2, though not visible to the naked eye, is very big. It itself has 30 smaller galaxies orbiting. The single stars in Crater 2 can be seen from Earth, but the entire Crater 2 is too big to occupy a decent position in the sky at night.

If Crater 2 is closer, the observation image can be very impressive. This is the brightest galaxy among the places discovered in the past decade, 160,000 times more than sunlight. However, it took a long time for astronomers to find it, because the planets that make up Crater 2 spread quite wide, making it look "spooky" and not dense.

It is predicted that Crater 2 will merge into the Milky Way, because that is how our Milky Way is formed, but this process will take extremely long time.