The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a highly irregular galaxy known as ESO 174-1 located about 11 million light-years from Earth.
The Hubble Space Telescope reached space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and soon began transmitting spectacular images back to Earth of the mysteries of the universe.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a neighboring galaxy located around 11 million light-years from Earth. The highly irregular galaxy, ESO 174-1, resembles a hazy cloud against a dark backdrop illuminated by stars. 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 solar masses. The irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Scientists have also theorized that some large irregular galaxies could represent an intermediate step between spiral and elliptical galaxies. said the snapshot is a part of a collection of Hubble observations designed to better understand nearby galaxies.
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