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Hubble Spots an Irregular Island in a Sea of Space
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This image, courtesy of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), captures the glow of distant stars within NGC 5264, a dwarf galaxy located just over 15 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (The Sea Serpent). Dwarf galaxies like NGC 5264 typically possess around a billion stars — just 1 percent of the number of stars found within the Milky Way.
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Credit lineHubble Spots an Irregular Island in a Sea of Space. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000233.
