The Universe is chock-full of oddities: stars that blink in and out without explanation, galaxies that eat one another, black holes gone rogue. It’s no surprise that among the billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, some of them are going to look like oddballs.
From star formation to the gravitational pull of surrounding galaxies to entire collisions themselves, these are the forces that shape our Universe. In particular, research has found that star births can strongly influence galactic environments, as stars form out of surrounding dust and gas. From UV radiation that heats the surrounding gas to stellar winds that pressure and blow cavities through said gas, where this gas goes in turn can shape the evolution of galaxies.
According to NASA, your typical galaxy can be classified into a few given shapes. There’s the spiral of our very own Milky Way, a broad and common class of ...
