Anyone who looks at this image can see that every single galaxy in the image is unique and, by default, "strange" from its brethren. All these spiral galaxies illustrate the logarithmical flow of energy in the physical universe and one also might suspect, after decades of trying to find a point where no more fully formed galaxies appear, that one is not looking at an "early" part of the universe or a "late" part - simply another ever so small and simultaneously infinite part of an even larger unfathomable infinity.
Each galaxy, unto itself is filled with stars and surrounded by 'strange' worlds and filled with who knows how many unrecognized chemical elements and subsequently life forms with primal or sentient qualities that would be completely unrecognizable to us.
And what's more when one realize it took 80 images in various spectra to create a single image we can wrap our minds around, has anyone ever bothered to stop and think there might be completely invisible galaxies all around those ones we can perceive and detect in infrared and other portions of our identifiable portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? Yes, for every visible galaxy in that image there are many more invisible ones which can pass right through the other galaxies as if they don't exist - because they are composed of energy that is sufficiently removed so as not to interface in any easily measurable manner!
Far stranger would be an image of nothing...at least to our eyes...which revealed a galaxy completely invisible to our human eyes which would exist within a completely unexpected spectra. Invisible suns, worlds and things - all simply operating within a spectra we did not at all share and could not even image because our equipment could not capture signals from this spectra.
Yes, each galaxy is wonderful, unique and strange. Each is early, late, and inbetween depending on your own personal frame of reference to it. For Earth and humanity, such a galaxy seems older than time itself and for other places that galaxy is a wailing newborn still in diapers.
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'Strange', 'early' & other misnomers.
