Astronomers took the picture as part of a larger plan to study every galaxy close to our own neighborhood, the Milky Way. That hazy cloud of light dead center is a dwarf irregular galaxy about 30 ...

See the dazzling photos below, along with an explanation ... That's the case for NGC 6822, the first irregular dwarf galaxy that Euclid observed just 1.6 million light-years from Earth.

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week ... Then there are irregular galaxies, which have often been pulled into strange shapes ...

It’s also a small galaxy, so it’s a type classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy. The galaxy featured in this Picture of the Week has a shape unlike many of the galaxies familiar to Hubble.

It's a growing, irregular galaxy with a powerful supermassive black hole active at its center. Related: Amazing photos from the ALMA radio telescope We see the Spiderweb as it existed 10.6 billion ...

Astronomers call the LMC an “irregular” galaxy, which means it has no particular shape — but it still holds the warped remains of structures that were once spiral arms and a central bar ...

The Webb telescope’s new finding shows the eerie-looking and “irregular” galaxy NGC 6822, also known as Bernard’s Galaxy, in unprecedented detail, shedding light on what a “very early ...

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope produced this new image of the galaxy UGC 8091. ESA / Hubble, NASA, ESA, Yumi Choi (NSF's NOIRLab), Karoline Gilbert (STScI), Julianne Dalcanton (Center for ...

Related: Hubble Space Telescope: Pictures, facts & history One of ... This is because it is an example of an irregular galaxy, a class of galaxies that has a wide spectrum of both shapes and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of "festive" irregular galaxy UGC 8091 ... living or extinct Study brings to light new picture of intimate relationships among older ...

The new images show these iconic galaxies in great detail, immortalizing their shape, colors and distribution of stars up to great distances from the center. Two of them, the irregular galaxy NGC ...