Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others.
Where it is: 59 million light-years away, in the constellation Ursa MajorWhy it's so special: The galaxy I Zwicky 18 may have an odd name, but it's the galaxy's odd appearance that has caught the attention of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope .
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