So last night I went with a girl friend and her cousin to a performance of the Steve Rashid Octet at Studio 5 in Evanston. Before each song, Steve provided a brief story related to the music or lyrics. But one introduction was astounding (do not recall the song at all) and showed how I really need to read newspapers or news articles on a more regular basis.

Some astronomers accidentally pointed their telescope to the wrong coordinates and discovered a “dark” galaxy filled only with gas and without any visible stars “only” 270 million light years away — so not the distant past where you might expect to make such an observation. The galaxy is rotating like a normal galaxy.

space.com

Is anyone here familiar with this discovery?