Astronomers have taken a second look at the isolated galaxy UGC 1382 and discovered everything they thought they knew about its size, age, and formation is probably wrong. UGC 1382 lies about 250 million light-years away in a quiet and unremarkable neighborhood, with few neighbors to bother it. Several surveys in the 2000s looked for structural features like star rings and bars but didn't find anything other than a typical elliptical galaxy. Then Lea Hagen (Penn State) noticed something interesting in ultraviolet images taken with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX): UGC 1382 actually has very extended spiral arms.
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机译：天文学家对孤立的银河系UGC 1382进行了第二次研究，发现他们认为关于其大小，年龄和形成的一切信息可能都是错误的。 UGC 1382处于2.5亿光年远的地方，在一个安静而平淡的社区中，几乎没有邻居来打扰它。在2000年代的几项调查中都在寻找星状环和星条之类的结构特征，但除了典型的椭圆星系外没有发现其他东西。然后，李·哈根（Pea State）在用NASA的Galaxy Evolution Explorer（GALEX）拍摄的紫外线图像中发现了一些有趣的东西：UGC 1382实际上具有非常延伸的螺旋臂。
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