the previous contender for closest galaxy to Earth, though later studies disputed this conclusion.

Discovery

An international team of French, Italian, British, and Australian astronomers reported the existence of a strong elliptical-shaped stellar overdensity in November 2003. They claimed their study pointed to a newly discovered dwarf galaxy: the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. This structure is located closer to the Sun than the center of the milky way, at approximately

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