📍VV124
➡️ 4 million light-years
🏠 Ursa Major constellation
As you #meetyourcosmicneighbors, take a look at this new Hubble view of a dwarf irregular galaxy.
It’s relatively isolated, and because of this, astronomers are studying this galactic neighbor to try and determine if VV124 is a relatively undisturbed, older galaxy. Astronomy theories suggest that the lowest mass dwarf galaxies may have been some of the very first to form in our universe!
Hubble’s incredible resolution is able to detect the individual stars within VV124, even at its densest parts.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, K. Chiboucas (NOIRLab - Gemini North (HI), and M. Monelli (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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