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What if a Galaxy had Only One Star?

-- | May 18, 2014

Question:  What if a galaxy only has 1 sun and 1 planet an it is in the exact middle?  — Lance

Answer:  Galaxies are defined as collections of stars (possibly with planets), gas, and dust.  A single sun with a planet would not really qualify as being a “galaxy”.  What you are really describing would be considered a free-floating star and planet, which somehow ended-up outside the galaxy from which it formed.  To my knowledge we have never seen such an object.

Jeff Mangum