Photo from open sources
At the moment, scientists cannot say exactly what the structure is. at this entity.
In 2003, NASA scientists sent for research purposes an observatory called Spitzer, during which space revealed a lot of mysterious and poorly understood objects.
One of the strangest space finds has become a galaxy in shape and color reminiscent of the “Jedi sword” presented in the film “Star Wars”.
This galaxy, like a red ray, has its own code name – NGC 5866. It is located at a distance of 44 million light years from our planet.
On the image obtained by the observatory, you can easily see a very dense ring of cosmic dust enveloping the mysterious the galaxy. This suggests that this galaxy absorbs light stars and reflects it in the infrared (see photo).
A photo from open sources
It is important to note that this cosmic structure is formed in the first stages of the merger of galaxies. However, in our case, not traces of ring deformation that occurs in such moments.
Typically, stellar systems can be observed in images as spiral arms or blurry nebula. Here, scientists filmed only a flat view of a star cluster.
Scientists noted that this galaxy is very uncomfortable located so that you can explore it in more detail. IN in any case, they will continue their work and we may find out about this mysterious structure is much larger.
Andrey Vetrov
Galaxies
