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 ...

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 ...

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.

What it is: The irregular dwarf galaxy UGC 8091 Imaged here by the Hubble Space Telescope, UGC 8091 is an irregular dwarf galaxy thought to exist in the same Local Group as the Milky Way.

It may come as a surprise that this hazy region, located 44 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Pegasus ... have labeled the galaxy as irregular. NGC 7292 has earned ...

Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located 2.6 million light-years away. Despite its unstructured appearance, Hubble's observations revealed distinct age ...

Bright red "blossoms" of star formation stand out in a new image of an unconventional galaxy. A new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a dwarf irregular galaxy called NGC 1156.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, which ...