The galaxies were divided into three classes

The famous ethnologist and scientist Richard Dawkins is very likely that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but much rarer than we can go as far that simply presents us with the enormous grandeur of Cosmos and its almost infinite capacity to surprise us daily. 

In the few months of life that this young blog Astronomy we have been able to attend many surprises, but I assure you that today is one of the strangest. 

 It is the discovery by an international team of astrophysicists from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Finland, using the Japanese Subaru Telescope, have found a galaxy unknown rectangular. 

 So far, and according to their shape, the galaxies were divided into three classes: elliptical galaxies, spiral galaxies and irregular galaxies, but the discovery of this new star formation in the form of "emerald carved" has perplexed astronomers. 

The principal investigator own science team, Alister Graham of the University of Technology Swinburne in Australia, recognized that it was the first time I saw something and he added: "It's one of those things that just make you smile because it should not exist or, rather, we did not think could exist. " 

She has been named scientific LEDA 0784886 and is a dwarf galaxy located just 70 million light years from Earth, located within a larger group which has 250 other galaxies. 

The strange how he acquired this way is still a mystery, but as explained by Professor Duncan Forbes, another Australian astronomer involved in the discovery, it is possible that the galaxy would have formed from the collision of two spiral galaxies above. After the shock cosmic, stars from the early galaxies were scattered in outer orbits giving the emerald-shaped appearance, while the remaining gas was condensed into new stars forming inside. 

Obviously, and for the moment, this is only hypothesis that will need much more data and observations to be confirmed. The researchers plan to publish all the details in an article, which they have titled LEDA 074886, a galaxy striking rectangular and will be published next May 1 in the Astrophysical. There will be attentive.