NASA finds active ‘Star Wars’ galaxy far, far away!
Well lets hope the Sith don’t know where here… lol TXS 0128+554, outlined in red on the pic below, is an elliptical galaxy located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Heck I wanna know about the bright RED Dots on the left side there… The active galaxy far, far away looks eerily reminiscent of a TIE fighter from “Star Wars.” Which is how it got it’s name “The Star Wars Galaxy” I hope Disney doesn’t sue NASA of naming rights. But in reality the galaxy, known as TXS 0128+554, is 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. TXS 0128+554 is considered an active galaxy, as it emits more light than all of its stars together. In 2015, researchers found TXS 0128+554 was a “faint source of gamma rays,” but it wasn’t until recently that they went in for a closer look. “After the Fermi announcement, we zoomed in a million times closer on the galaxy using the [Very Long Baseline Array’s] radio antennas and charted its shape over time,” said Purdue Unive