Monstrous 'Frankenstein Galaxy' Made from Cosmic Spare Parts

UGC 1382, which lies about 250 million light-years from Earth, had long been regarded as an old, small and ordinary elliptical galaxy. "The center of UGC 1382 is actually younger than the spiral disk surrounding it," study co-author Mark Seibert, of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. The research team, led by Lea Hagen of Pennsylvania State University, analyzed images of UGC 1382 captured in ultraviolet light by NASA's Gal