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UW-Madison students stumble on a new galaxy

To most undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the word “research” conjures up images of a stack of books, a long night in the library and many cups of coffee.

But for five astronomy students this semester, a research project became a portal to worlds far removed from a campus library.

And now, instead of thinking up a title for their final paper, they’re trying to come up with a name â?? for the galaxy they found in a little known part of the universe.