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 ...

Such a two-phased medium is typical for gas-rich faint dwarf irregular galaxies. The collected data also indicate that KK153 is a blue galaxy that has recently formed stars and that the new ones ...

Detected in 2001 as it emerged from behind a bright fast-moving star known as TYC 7215-199-1, Peekabo is a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy located some 21.8 million light years away. Previous ...

Astronomers are also using UGC 8091 to investigate star formation in galaxies with low levels of heavy elements. “Despite how small and misshapen they look, dwarf irregular galaxies turn out to ...

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 ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an ...

The irregular galaxy NGC 3109, about 4 million light-years away, imaged by the VST. Credit: Inaf/VST-Smash/C. Tortora et al. 2024 The irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, about 4 million light-years ...

Like large galaxies, dwarfs may be spiral or barred spiral, elliptical, or irregular. They also vary in size and mass. The Sculptor Dwarf is a lightweight, coming in at only 30 million solar masses.

Spirals are only one of four major classifications for galaxies; the others are elliptical, irregular and peculiar ... These are called “dwarf elliptical galaxies” and are satellites of ...