In the Universe there are more than 200 billion galaxies, we live in the Milky Way and our neighbor is Andromeda, do you know which are the 5 largest? A curious fact that few know is that in each of these galaxies there are more than 100 billion stars. Are we really alone in this immense Universe?
I honestly believe that we are not alone, I think it is very unlikely that life has not developed on some other planet.
But the subject we are going to address here is not about the size of this vast universe, but about the 5 largest galaxies ever discovered. However, before talking about them, I'll tell you right away that neither the Milky Way nor Andromeda are on this list.
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5 - NGC 4874
In fifth place of this list of the 5 largest galaxies in the Universe we have NGC 4874 in fifth place, I will give some details of it now. She is also known as “eat a” and was discovered in 1785, do you know how far it is from our planet earth? 355,500,000 light years, remembering that a light year is equivalent to 7 times around the planet Earth in just one second.
4 - NGC 4889
In fourth place we have NGC 4889, it is known as “eat b” and is approx. 308 million of light years from Earth. It was discovered by the British astronomer Frederick William Herschel I in 1785, even this same astronomer was the one who discovered the previous galaxy.
A curiosity of hers is that it has a huge black hole at its center with about 20 to 124 billion kilometers.
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3 - NGC 262
NGC 262 is located about 202 million light years from Earth, our planet is in the galaxy called the Milky Way, I mentioned it at the beginning. This galaxy has a diameter of 1.3 million light-years, it is no wonder that it ranks third among the 5 largest galaxies in the Universe. But anyway, you know what most impresses in this galaxy? Its number of stars, however, is about 15 trillion.
2 – Phoenix Cluster
This time we are not going to talk about a galaxy that starts its name with “NGC”, it is called the Phoenix Cluster. It is one of the most solid galaxies in the universe, its distance to Earth is about 5.7 billion light years from Earth. However, its size would be equivalent to several Andromeda galaxies.
1 - IC 1101
And finally we come to the first galaxy in this list of the 5 largest galaxies in the Universe, the IC 1101 leads this list. It is located more than 1.04 billion light-years from Earth, but one detail stands out about it, do you know what it is? It is populated by approximately 100 trillion stars, it is no wonder that it occupies the first place on this list.
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