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From NASA/ ESA, January 6, 2020: Galaxy UGC 2885 may be the largest one in the local universe. It is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way and contains 10 times as many stars. This galaxy is 232 million light-years away, located in the northern constellation of Perseus.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville).
(Ed.: as a periodic reminder of the time/ space involved, this picture is of the galaxy as it was 232 million years ago, when the earliest dinosaurs were emerging on Earth.)
