The new galaxy is located in a strange sphere in the Magellanic cloud

The international team of astronomers recently reported the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy in Magellanic Bridge - a stream of gas that connects two Magellanic clouds, found in the constellation Hydrus.

The new Hydra 1 galaxy was discovered by a team of researchers led by Sergey E. Koposov of Carnegie Mellon University, using a Dark Energy Camera (DECAM) placed on the Blanco Telescope 4 m at the Intercontinental Observatory America Cerro-Tololo (CTIO) in Chile to observe the area between the Small Cloud (SMC) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

The Hydrus 1 galaxy is elliptical and light, located about 90,000 light-years from the sun.(Image source: Phys).

Analysis of the spectral data obtained by DECAM led to the identification of a new super-fuzzy dwarf galaxy.

The study shows that the Hydrus 1 galaxy is elliptical and light, located about 90,000 light-years from the sun and about 78,000 light-years from the LMC Cloud . The galaxy has absolute magnitude –4.7 half-circle radius of 163 light-years, and the surface brightness is noticeably brighter.

According to astronomers, these parameters indicate that Hydrus 1 is more likely to be a dwarf galaxy, however, it could also be an extended globular cluster.

Observations show that Hydrus 1 has a poor, star-metal complex with some blue branch stars and two star variables RR Lyrae.

This system is predominantly dark matter, suggesting it could be a globular cluster with a small amount of dark matter or a dwarf galaxy that lost some dark matter caused by the tide.

Research shows that Hydrus 1 is quite poor at metal, with an average metal content of –2.5. It is worth noting that this system has an extremely rich, slightly more metallic star with carbon strength with a level of about -3.0.