Hubble scopes out a galaxy of stellar birth

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This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars visible in the field as well). ESO 486-21 is a spiral galaxy—albeit with a somewhat irregular and ill-defined structure—located some 30 million light-years from Earth. The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed this object while performing […]

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June 26, 2017 at 06:46AM