A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaii and the Astronomy Institute of America has determined, by drawing a catalog, the distance of 56,000 galaxies with high precision from our Milky Way. Each galaxy, like the Milky Way, is made up of several hundred billion stars. Measurements of the galaxies’ distances were determined, along with information regarding their speed and age.
“Since galaxies were identified as separate from the Milky Way 100 years ago, astronomers have now been trying to measure their distances by combining more precise and abundant instruments,” the scientists said. Among the galaxies are the “Stefan’s Pentagram”, a group of 5 galaxies that can be seen with the naked eye in the constellation of Persia, and among them 4 galaxies are the first galaxies to be discovered and one of the most beautiful, discovered by the French astronomer Edouard Stephan in 1877 from the Marseille Observatory in France.
Its distance from the Milky Way was determined with unprecedented accuracy of 270 million light-years.