Astronomers detect peculiar features in the stellar halo of dwarf galaxy NGC 300

Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical observations of a dwarf galaxy known as NGC 300. As a result, they detected a stellar stream, shells and a globular cluster in the halo of this galaxy. Their findings were reported Jan. 7 on the pre-print server arXiv.