The Biggest Spiral Galaxy - Sixty Symbols

2013-01-11

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NGC 6872 has recently been named the largest spiral galaxy observed - or "little bit of a fraud"?

Professor Mike Merrifield is an expert on galaxies at the University of Nottingham.

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