GAMA202627 - now has its own Wikipedia entry!

An international team of astronomers, including Professor Steve Phillipps from Bristol, has reported the discovery of two groups of galaxies with very similar properties to the Local Group containing our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy was previously thought to be unique in the nearby Universe in having two very close, fairly large star forming galaxies (the Magellanic Clouds) as companions.

The most look-alike twin for our Galaxy - going by the name of GAMA202627 - now has its own Wikipedia entry.

The work, from the GAMA (Galaxy And Mass Accumulation) team, was presented at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly in Beijing by Dr Aaron Robotham, now of the University of Western Australia and formerly Professor Phillipps' PhD student here in Bristol.

The paper is at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012MNRAS.424.1448R

See Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAMA202627