Real Madrid may have a team full of galacticos, but there’s only one of their players that is truly out of this World – Cristiano Ronaldo.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has named a new galaxy after the 30-year-old, describing it as the brightest to be found in the universe.
"Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and found strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it," the group explained.
"These massive, brilliant, and previously purely theoretical objects were the creators of the first heavy elements in history - the elements necessary to forge the stars around us today, the planets that orbit them, and life as we know it.
"The newly found galaxy, labelled CR7, is three times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known up to now."
CR7 is Ronaldo’s nickname comprising his initials and the squad number he uses at Real.
