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An irregular galaxy with a large central body of dull-colored stars and distorted arms around it. Brightly glowing pink areas where stars are forming dot the arms, along with bluish gas that is brighter than the galactic core. Two large arms flank the left and right of the body, and smaller streams of stars emerge from the top. Other distant galaxies are visible on the edges of the image.

Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies…

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An irregular galaxy: a cloud of tiny, point-like stars on a dark background. The cloud is densest along a broad, curved band across the center of the image. It is colored a faint blue with glowing purplish patches, and the stars grow less dense out to the edges but don’t fully vanish. A few distant background galaxies appear among the stars as glowing spots.

Hubble Spots a Galaxy Shrouded by Stars

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a densely packed field of stars laid upon a background of dust, gas,…

Article3 months ago
A field of galaxies. UGC 8091 is at the top and center of the image. It appears as a haze of stars through which more distant galaxies are visible. Two, bright, pinkish-red nebulae are also visible.

NASA’s Hubble Presents a Holiday Globe of Stars

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The billion stars in galaxy UGC 8091 resemble a sparkling snow globe in this festive Hubble Space Telescope image from…

Article4 months ago
An irregular galaxy, a narrow streak of stars crossed by faint dust lanes. A bright glow surrounds it, appearing like a beam of light in the center of a dark background. A scatter of small, distant galaxies and a single, bright star surround the galaxy.

Hubble Looks at a Late-type Galaxy

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 2814, an irregular galaxy that lies about 85 million light-years from Earth. In this image, which…

Article4 months ago
An irregular galaxy that resembles the shape of a cloud. It is made of many tiny stars all clumped together, surrounded in a diffuse light. In the central, brightest part there is a bubble of blue gas. The galaxy is surrounded by mostly very small and faint objects, though there are bright stars above and to the left of it, and a string of galaxies nearby.

Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy

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The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Article8 months ago
An irregular galaxy that appears like a triangle-shaped patch of tiny stars. It is densest in the center and along one edge, growing faint out to the opposite corner. A bright star, with two sets of long spikes, is between the viewer and the galaxy.

Hubble Images a Starstruck Galaxy

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The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is…

Article9 months ago
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