NGC 1156 boasts a unique structure unlike most other galaxies.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a strangely shaped dwarf galaxy. A celestial body called NGC 1156 is located 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries. Space writes about it.
“Thousands of bright stars resemble a spiral galaxy, but it lacks the characteristic twisting structure,” ESA said.
The glowing red flowers scattered throughout the image represent regions of intense star formation that fuel the intense energy of the galaxy. Ionized hydrogen gas escaping from these young stars emits a red glow.
“Spiral galaxies typically have a central bulge of older, faint stars surrounded by a flat rotating disk of hot young stars. While NGC 1156 has a dense center with an older generation of stars , its younger stars are not part of the so-called spiral arms. surrounding the galaxy. Due to the absence of any distinctive shape – neither a spiral nor an elliptical structure – we classify NGC 1156 as a dwarf irregular galaxy,” added the astronomer
The galaxy is also classified as isolated because there are no other bodies nearby to affect its unique shape and ongoing star formation.
Image: ESA
NGC 1156
Recall that earlier the James Webb telescope took a picture of the Wolf-Ryet star, located at a distance of about 5600 light years from us.
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