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This is Hoag's Object, one of the rarest and most mysterious galaxies ever discovered. ​What makes it so weird? It's two objects in one, with almost nothing in between. The center is a tight ball of ancient, yellow stars, while the outer loop is a perfect ring of brand-new, hot, blue stars. A vast, dark gap separates them. ​How did it form? 🤷‍♂️ Was it a cosmic collision? A weird instability? No one knows for sure. It’s a true cosmic riddle, just floating in the void. ​ ​#HoagsObject #Space #Ga

The video that we observe captures the sound of what was called the Hoag object and was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Hoag object has an extension of more than 100,000 light years in diameter, and its extension is slightly larger than our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The blue ring is dominated by clusters of young, massive stars, while the yellow core is made up mostly of older stars. In this sonification, a clockwise radar scan transforms image data into sound. Bright light is re

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