Next: OBSERVATIONS Up: SBS 0335-052W - AN EXTREMELY GALAXY Previous: SBS 0335-052W - AN EXTREMELY GALAXY . Since its discovery as an extremely low-metallicity galaxy, the blue compact galaxy (BCG) SBS 0335-052 (SBS - Second Byurakan Survey) has been proposed to be good candidate for a nearby, young dwarf galaxy (Izotov et al. ... 1997). Another piece of evidence in favor of small age of SBS 0335-052 has been found by Thuan & Izotov (1997) from HST UV spectrophotometry. ...