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Bizarre ‘Frankenstein Galaxy’ discovered: “Its insides are younger than its outsides”

Astronomers have uncovered an enormous, bizarre “Frankenstein” galaxy, possibly formed from the parts of other galaxies, about 250 million light-years away from Earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported Monday. UGC 1382 had originally been thought to be “old, small and typical,” according to JPL. But scientists using data from NASA telescopes and other observatories “have […]

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