New images released by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are of the Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI. Pegasus is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31 ...

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.

Irregular galaxies have strange shapes, like toothpicks or groupings of stars and range from dwarf irregular galaxies with 100 million times the mass of the sun to large ones weighing 10 billion ...

This stellar neighborhood is in what is known as a “dwarf irregular galaxy,” and is 25 million light-years away in the Pavo constellation. These systems are far more scattered, chaotic ...

In a word: size. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are much bigger than globular clusters. The Pegasus dwarf spheroidal galaxy, which orbits the famous spiral galaxy M31 in Andromeda, spans 2,000 light-years.

This is typical for a spheroidal dwarf galaxy. These galaxies, shaped as their name implies, have very little of the gas that forms stars, unlike their cousins, irregular dwarf galaxies.

A stunning new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows countless stars being born in a nearby dwarf galaxy. The Hubble photo depicts the faint irregular galaxy NGC 3738, which is located ...

Hubble spots a peculiar compact blue dwarf galaxy Date: December 3, 2012 Source: NASA Summary: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253 ...

Jeffrey Kenney from Yale University, explained, “We think we’re witnessing a critical stage in the transformation of a gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy into a gas-poor dwarf elliptical galaxy ...

An asteroid only a few miles across photobombed a Hubble Space Telescope image of an irregular dwarf galaxy. Credit: ESA / NASA / Hubble Just when astronomers were in the middle of studying a ...

NCG 4449 is classified as an irregular Magellanic-type galaxy, reflecting its loose spiral structure and close resemblance to the satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic ...