NASA has discovered a active galaxy far, far away that looks eerily reminiscent of a TIE contender from “Star Wars.”

The galaxy, known as TXS 0128+554, is 500 million light-years away in the star grouping Cassiopeia. TXS 0128+554 is viewed as a functioning cosmic system, as it transmits more light than the entirety of its stars together.

In 2015, analysts discovered TXS 0128+554 was a “faint source of gamma rays,” however it wasn’t up to this point they went in for a more critical look.

“After the Fermi announcement, we zoomed in a million times closer on the galaxy using the [Very Long Baseline Array’s] radio antennas and charted its shape over time,” said Purdue University teacher and study lead creator Matthew Lister in an announcement. “The first time I saw the results, I immediately thought it looked like Darth Vader’s TIE fighter spacecraft from ‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.’ That was a fun surprise, but its appearance at different radio frequencies also helped us learn more about how active galaxies can change dramatically on decade time scales.”

TXS 0128+554 has a “supermassive black hole” that is accepted to be 1 billion times the sun’s mass, which may give motivation to the gamma-ray emanations.

The galaxy is additionally creating two planes, “beams of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light in opposite directions,” that give it the TIE contender like appearance. It’s accepted these planes might be delivering a portion of the gamma-ray emissions.

The scientists utilized NASA’s Fermi Gamma-beam Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to take a gander at the cosmic system to show signs of improvement thought of what it resembles.

“The real-world universe is three-dimensional, but when we look out into space, we usually only see two dimensions,” study co-creator Daniel Homan included. “In this case, we’re lucky because the galaxy is angled in such a way, from our perspective, that the light from the farther lobe travels dozens more light-years to reach us than the light from the nearer one. This means we’re seeing the farther lobe at an earlier point in its evolution.”

TXS 0128+554 isn’t the main “Star Wars”- connected revelation in space in ongoing memory.

In June 2016, exoplanet Kepler-1647 b was found 3,700 light-years from Earth. It is a piece of a twofold star framework, like Luke Skywalker’s planet, Tatooine. After three years, exoplanet LTT 1445 A b and its three stars were found.

Specialists found what they portrayed as “the first volcanically active exomoon” in August 2019, a heavenly body frightfully suggestive of the little, searing “Star Wars” planet, Mustafar, where Anakin Skywalker transformed into Darth Vader.