Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. While this image does not look very dramatic – we might say it looks almost serene – the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic. In fact, the little galaxy […]
Posted on February 23, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

12
18
5
10
40
2
10
10
203
1
586
52
9
1
36
3
1
10
3
6
6
11
6
1
1
1
1
3
1
222
3
1
183
2
29
1
8
1
4
4
1
2
2
Io
4
1
287
2
5
28
4
320
1
2
1
87
17
6
10
1
42
129
1
2
2
132
1
1
14
1
4
1
22
1
6
3
3
1
4
11
6
7

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive