Rare Rectangular Galaxy Discovered!
 What Rectangle is it?

  

Just this week a newly discovered Dwarf Galaxy, known as LEDA 074886, was reported to be found about 70 million light years away from us.

It's rectangular shape is unusual and I wondered whether it resembles any of the canonical rectangles.
I've overlaid Golden Rectangles around it; lo and behold, they're a pretty nice fit.

If this galaxy is the result of two galaxies colliding, then I don't really see any reason that it should fit in this particular rectangle,
and so it's a nice coincidence for now that will change in the blink of a few million years.

But if the shape is a result of internal forces, then there's a chance that its self-referential expansion may produce Golden Ratio values.
Many galaxies with arms shaped as logarithmic spirals are already expressing Golden Ratio proportions, but to see one expressed as a rectangle is unusual.

Although it appears as this rectangle as seen from Earth, what does it look like from other directions?
Just a nice coincidence or something more significant? Who knows...?
3/20/2012