Watch a Small Elliptical Galaxy Be Revealed as a Giant Disk

Carnegie’s Mark Seibert, Barry Madore, Jeff Rich, and team have discovered that what was believed since the 1960s to be a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 is really a colossal Giant Low Surface Brightness disk galaxy. Watch a series of multi-wavelength images that the team used to reveal this behemoth.