According to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA), a partner in the mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of an irregular dwarf galaxy called NGC1156, and the bright red stars stand out in the new image of the unusual galaxy, located 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries, and has a unique structure unlike most Other galaxies.
Thousands of brilliant stars resemble a spiral galaxy, but it lacks the unique swirling structure, according to ESA officials in a statement about the new Hubble image. Ionized hydrogen gas streams from these newborn stars emit a red light.
Spiral galaxies typically have a central bulge of faint old stars surrounded by a flat, rotating disc of hot stars, and while NGC 1156 has a centre densely packed with older generations of stars, its younger stars are not contained in the galaxy’s conspicuous spiral arms, because NGC 1156 lacks any sort of distinct shape, neither a spiral nor an elliptical structure, and it has also been classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy.
According to the announcement, star creation is continuing.
A fresh image of a weirdly formed galaxy is captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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