Astronomers discover new galaxy, name it after Cristiano Ronaldo

According to a report on qz.com, Cristiano Ronaldo just took the lead over Lionel Messi in a pretty major statistical category.

The [galaxy] they’re most excited about is three times as luminous as any other galaxy of a similar age, making it “by far the brightest galaxy ever observed at this stage in the universe,” the ESO said. Astronomer David Sobral and his colleagues named it CR7, which stands for COSMOS Redshift 7 but is also a nod to the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who is known to fans as CR7.

That’s right, Ronaldo, one of Real Madrid’s Galacticos, is now one up on Messi in galaxies named after him.