• Question: what is the name of the biggest galaxy beside the milky way

    Asked by anon-245445 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 10 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Sam Frampton

      Sam Frampton answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      As far as we know, the milky way is a pretty average galaxy, the biggest galaxy we know of is 1000 times bigger than the milky way and is called ‘IC1101’ (Scientists aren’t great at naming things…)

    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Galaxies come in all sorts of sizes and shapes

    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Hi Yosief! The biggest galaxy has the mass (the weight) of a 100 trillion stars! As the other Sam says, it is called IC1101 (very catchy!) and is a long, long, long way away from our galaxy : -)

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      IC1101 managed to get so so big because it formed at the centre of a huge “city of galaxies” and got to keep forming stars and also absorb the gas and stars ripped apart from other nearby galaxies.

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