LEDA 58817 is inside Ophiuchus which is an equatorial constellation. It is estimated to be 370 million light-years away from our planet.

It may sound just like an ordinary thing, but what makes it interesting is that it is classified as a megamaser galaxy. These megamasers are 100 million times brighter than the ones that are located inside our very own Milky Way Galaxy.

Because of this, the entire makeup of the galaxy is seen as a microwave emission due to its immense brightness. It is not thus visible to the human eye as it does not beam out visible light, but microwave emissions instead.

Rare galactic find for Hubble Space Telescope

It is surprising to know that the Hubble telescope is indeed looking at a very bright galaxy that is indeed way out of comprehension due to the grand scale of its brightness.

According to Sci News, thanks to NICMOS, scientists are given the opportunity to study the galaxy in deeper detail. The sensitivity as well as the resolution is then very clear, enabling us to learn more about this very rare find of a galaxy.

Galactic Megamaser of Extremes

It is also found out that the galaxy has a double nucleus. This means that it has two separate cores. The two cores are said to be 11,000 light-years apart from each other.

According to The Te Cake, despite the massive gap distance, the two cores are still interacting with each other. The first core is where new stars are being formed at a very fast pace.

On the other hand, the other core functions oppositely as it emits the weakly ionized and neutral gas compositions of it. It is also worth knowing that it is also home to a black hole that is 100 million times more than our own Sun's mass in total.