from the we-have-a-community-of-them dept.
Hubble Space Telescope Revisits a Galactic Oddball:
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This diminutive galaxy lies in the southern constellation Pictor, and is approximately 17 million light-years from Earth. NGC 1705 is a cosmic oddball — it is small, irregularly shaped, and has recently undergone a spate of star formation known as a starburst.
Despite these eccentricities, NGC 1705 and other dwarf irregular galaxies like it can provide valuable insights into the overall evolution of galaxies. Dwarf irregular galaxies tend to contain few elements other than hydrogen or helium, and are considered to be similar to the earliest galaxies that populated the Universe.
[...] By observing a specific wavelength of light known as H-alpha with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers aimed to discover thousands of emission nebulae — regions created when hot, young stars bathe the clouds of gas surrounding them in ultraviolet light, causing them to glow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02 2022, @05:50PM (1 child)
Not sorry. XD
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02 2022, @06:06PM
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday February 03 2022, @09:19AM (1 child)
Yeah, I’d point Hubble at that too!
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday February 03 2022, @09:20AM
(But not that young, of course). Just showing my age here, heh.