C25 The Intergalactic Wanderer - telescope processed image. It earned its name because it’s so far away—roughly 300,000 light-years—that astronomers once believed it wasn't bound to the Milky Way at all.

C25 The Intergalactic Wanderer - unprocessed image. Despite its faint appearance, it is intrinsically massive and bright, containing nearly a million stars and taking 3 billion years to orbit the galaxy.

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