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New Nearby Dwarf Galaxy with Low Metallicity.
It was discovered that the interstellar medium of the SDSS J0926+3343 dwarf galaxy, located in the nearby Lynx-Cancer Void, has the metal abundance 35 times lower than the solar one - the lowest value between thousands of known galaxies inside the sphere with the radius of 20Mpc. The age of visible old stellar population is from 1 to 3 Gyr. In the same void there is a similar galaxy DDO68, which points at the existence of the regions in the local Universe, where the formation and evolution of galaxies may take place with a long delay.
In collaboration with the South-African Observatory and the Observatoire de Paris.
(For contacts: Pustilnik S.A.)

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