Galaxies are generally giant clusters of matter, that includes the likes of planets, gasses and of course stars. However, recent observations made by astronomers have discovered a galaxy that doesn’t actually have a single star and it’s sort of baffling scientists.
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00:00Galaxies are generally giant clusters of matter that includes the likes of
00:07planets, gases, and of course stars. However, recent accidental observations
00:12made by astronomers have discovered a galaxy that doesn't actually have a
00:15single star and it's sort of baffling scientists. This is J0613 plus 52, a
00:22collection of what appears to be just gas around 270 million light-years from
00:26Earth. The researchers weren't even looking for it. The only reason they
00:29noticed the gas galaxy was because one of the astronomers mistyped a coordinate.
00:33Experts say they believe it's simply a collection of gas floating between
00:36other galaxies, but generally giant collections of gas are drawn together by
00:40the large mass of a star. What's even wilder is that it's behaving like one
00:43might expect a spiral galaxy to, but without a cluster of stars like one
00:47might expect. So how did this happen? Well their best guess is that we're looking
00:51at the first primordial galaxy ever discovered relatively nearby. One that
00:55was formed very shortly after the Big Bang and because over its probable 13.8
01:00billion year lifespan, nothing seems to have interacted with it, either pulling
01:04it apart or compressing the material into a star. Meaning this galaxy is
01:07unlike anything ever observed before.