Taxus Baccata

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ISOHDFS 27 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana, and was discovered in the Hubble Deep Field South survey. It is the most massive spiral galaxy found in the survey,[1] measuring 130,000 light-years (40,000 parsecs) in diameter.[2] It is located approximately 6 billion light-years (1.8 billion parsecs) from Earth[2] and has a mass greater than 1000 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it about four times as massive as the Milky Way.[1]

It was once thought to be the largest spiral galaxy in the universe,[1] but it has since been dethroned by NGC 6872.[3]

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  1. ^ a b c "Most Massive Spiral Galaxy Known in the Universe". European Southern Observatory Press Release: 25. 2000-12-01. Bibcode:2000eso..pres...25.
  2. ^ a b information@eso.org. "Massive spiral galaxy ISOHDFS 27". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
  3. ^ SVS (2013-10-17). "NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy". SVS. Retrieved 2023-09-22.


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