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Are there galaxies without stars?

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It is called VIRGOHI21 and is 50 million light years from us. Discovered in 2005, the Hubble Space Telescope has only discovered 119 red giant stars in this dark galaxy, the typical number found in intergalactic space. It is made up of gas clouds and unknown dark matter. Surprisingly, it has 10 times more of this dark matter than normal galaxies.


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