The king of Sardis accepted them as suppliants, and then refused to surrender them to the Medes. This led to a 5 year war between the Lydians and Medes, which was finally settled by a treaty in which Alyattes daughter Aryenis was given in marriage to Astyages, son of Cyaxares.
Quasar cluster is challenge to our current understanding, astronomer says. Enlarge. A quasar jets energy in an illustration. A newfound quasar cluster is the universe's biggest known object. Illustration courtesy M. Kornmesser, ESO. Talk about a whopperâastronomers have discovered a structure in the universe so large that modern cosmological theory says it should not exist, a new study says. (Also see Giant 'Blob' Is Largest Thing in Universe [2006].)
IC 1101 The largest galaxy Known so Far. IC 1101 is located one billion light years away in the constellation Serpens, this is the largest galaxy in the known universe. It is enormous, it has a diameter of six million light years and a mass of over 100 trillion stars, with most of that mass in the form of elusive dark matter. astronomer Mark Brodwin said.