10 Galactic Mysteries That STILL Have Scientists Scratching Their Heads

7. Baby Galaxy

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(pic by NASA)

This one is fascinating in that it is inside another formation that seems to be feeding it all kinds of space stuff 😉

Until now. Caltech researchers used their own Cosmic Web Imager to spot a protogalactic disk (baby galaxy) 10 billion light-years away that was being breast-fed a nourishing hydrogen formula by an expansive strand of gas. The strand is part of a much larger, interconnected cosmic web of unclaimed stellar ingredients.

Let’s check out the magellanic bully on the next page

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