India, Aug. 8 -- In what could be an important step towards the study of space and exploration of its depths, two astronomers from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune and a collaborator from the University of Tokyo in Japan have captured an image that shows a rare and powerful phenomenon called 'galactic wind' around a tiny but extremely active galaxy. They chanced upon it during the course of their research and captured it for posterity.

Sharing about this discovery with Hindustan Times on Thursday, the astronomers from IUCAA, Dr Edmund Christian Herenz (Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Fellow) and Soumil Maulick, said that this galaxy, named J1044+0354, is only about 7,100 light-years wide, which is very small...