The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a neighboring galaxy located around 11 million light-years from Earth. The highly irregular galaxy, ESO 174-1, resembles a hazy cloud against a dark ...

But some galaxies are oddities that don’t fit in these clear shapes, and those are called irregular galaxies. These galaxies can be chaotic and nonsymmetrical and can be formed by gravitational ...

This more permanent interaction changes the shape of the progenitor galaxies, wiping out features such as spiral arms and creating a more homogenous, shapeless, irregular galaxy. The merger also ...

Composed of two different exposures which have been merged, it shows the star BD+17 2217 shining over the background irregular galaxy Arp 263. Irregular galaxies are those with irregular ...

Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and spiral (or barred spiral) galaxies. Galaxies with irregular shapes that do not fit into any categories are classified as irregular galaxies.

Astronomers have labeled the galaxy as irregular. NGC 7292 has earned this title because it lacks the broad arms of spiral galaxies and the elongated shape of elliptical galaxies. NGC 7292 also ...

The disorder is a result of UGC 8091 being an irregular galaxy that lacks the structured appearance of a spiral or elliptical galaxy. No two irregular galaxies look the same, and they appear in a ...

In 2006, Hubble captured an image of the Pinwheel Galaxy which was, at the time, the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever taken with Hubble. NGC 5486 lies 110 million light ...