Fly Straight Into One of the Rarest Galaxies Hubble Has Ever Spotted

The galax we ’re zooming in on in the TV above is LEDA 36252 . It ’s a pollywog galaxy82 million lightyears awaythat has been steady turning out new wiz at an incredible pace for one thousand million of years .

Tadpole galaxies are so rarified that only 20 of them exist for every 10,000 galaxies in the existence . Once , though — somewhere in our universe ’s murky beginnings — tadpole galaxies , with their incredible star - forming powers , were common .

The ones we still see , like LEDA 36252 , are “ living fossils , ” mixing clusters of whiz that date back billions of years with relatively new one that form in the last million or so . By studying its oldest cluster , scientist are able to trace the elements responsible for boot - off ancient burst of star formation . They can even represent out where supernova explosion occur in the galaxy , to get a better estimation of the universe that once was .