Unique Hoag-type of Galaxy Impressed NASA!

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Ever since God created the world, no one noticed the beauty of a little galaxy named PGC 1000714, which happens to exist 359 million light-years from Earth. However, Patrick Treuthardt, an astrophysicist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, was captured by the beauty of this little galaxy a few years ago.

Treuthardt happens to discover this while analyzing the span of galaxies. At first, he thought this was just a usual and little elliptical galaxy but as he takes a closer look to it he discovered an incredible and rare type of galaxy.

The 5.5 billion-year-old round red core is located at the heart of the galaxy and encircled by a 130 million-year-old faint blue ring with unconnected rings. As for the Treuthardt description, it matched the details of a Hoag-type galaxy.

Almost of the common galaxies in the universe were consist of gas and dust, a diffuse disk of stars, alike to those details of Milky Way has. However, Hoag-type of galaxies consists of redder stars that are likely much older at the center and on the outside ring, it is dominated by bright blue stars, NASA described.

Still, some of the scientists are not satisfied with the findings found to give a definite conclusion about the nature and systematic properties of it. But for the sake of study, the researchers collected multi-waveband images of the galaxy using a large-diameter telescope in Chile. Doing so, the researchers found red and older central body, dominated by a blue outer ring.

Mutlu-Pakdil, a Ph.D. candidate at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, analyzed the galaxy and was surprised by the second inner she saw. "Then I realized one more time that the universe is full of surprises and we still have a lot to learn," she explained to BBC News. To see how unique this galaxy is, watch this video below.