Strange Galaxy Perplexes Astronomers

12/14/2014 12:15AM

Strange Galaxy Perplexes Astronomers

With the help of citizen scientists participating in the Galaxy Zoo Project, a team of astronomers has found an important new example of a very rare type of galaxy. The galaxy, nearly 800 million light-years from Earth, is a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way. What is unique about this galaxy is that it has prominent jets of subatomic particles propelling outward from its core at nearly the speed of light... But the problem is that spiral galaxies like this are not supposed to have such large jets. So what is this?


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