Emerald-Cut Dwarf Galaxy Located 70 Million Light-Years Away

LEDA 074886: a dwarf galaxy with a curious rectangular shape

This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus Group, in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 074886 has been dubbed the emerald-cut galaxy, and was recently discovered by an international team of astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. The findings will be published in Astrophysics Journal but a preprint is available on arXiv  [PDF].

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