The Hubble telescope discovers one of the strangest galaxies in the universe

The strange thing about this galaxy

The strangely elongated arms, also called fashion currents, are caused by “some chance interaction in the past,” the ESA notes .

ESO 415-19 was detected thanks to a Hubble Ultra Deep Field observation . It is located in the constellation of Fornax.

The image required nearly a million seconds of telescope time to create and captured nearly 10,000 galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. With it, scientists can explore parts of the Universe’s history from the present to when it was only 800 million years old.

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This galaxy  was found as part of NASA’s Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies program , created to detect galaxies with unusual characteristics known in the universe.

These range from strange solitary galaxies to pairs, triplets and even quintets of spectacularly interacting galaxies. These space oddities are spread across the entire night sky, which means Hubble can spend a moment observing them as he moves among other observing targets.