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Saturday, June 2, 2012

A dwarf galaxy that is about 70 million light years from Earth


Most galaxies in the universe are classified into three forms: elliptical, disc-and usually flattened, and irregular spiral arms. That is so strange Leda 074886, a dwarf galaxy that is about 70 million light years from Earth is rectangular or, as astronomers have discovered, like a bright emerald. 
"It's one of those things that just make you smile because it should not exist or, rather, did not expect to exist," says Alsiter Graham (Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia), lead researcher.