тАЬA few billion years ago the outskirts of NGC 300 were brightly lit suburbs that would have shown up as clearly as its inner metropolis,тАЭ explains Joss Bland-Hawthorn of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia. тАЬBut the suburbs have dimmed with time, and are now inhabited only by faint, old starsтАФstars that need large telescopes such as Gemini South to detect them.тАЭ