{"id":441404,"date":"2026-05-30T02:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1326fcafc79693bba7cdba3412f8f444"},"modified":"2026-05-30T02:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:14:26","slug":"hubble-spies-faint-irregular-galaxy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=441404","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the faint glow of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017.<\/div>\n
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Tully (University of Hawaii); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA\/Catholic University of America)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> image released on May 27, 2026, features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy\u2019s low surface brightness makes it appear as a faint, starry swarm behind brighter foreground stars that are easily recognized by their diffraction spikes<\/a>. Numerous red, orange, and beige dots are distant galaxies peppering the black background, many exhibiting distinct spiral structure.<\/p>\n

The data in this image of ESO 490-017 was part of a Hubble observing program that looked at the movement of galaxies and galaxy clusters through space. Matter in the universe is distributed unevenly, and the gravitational influence of that matter drives the \u201ccosmic flow<\/a>\u201d or movement of large-scale structures in the universe.<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA, ESA, R. Tully (University of Hawaii); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA\/Catholic University of America)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This NASA\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0image released on May 27, 2026, features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years\u00a0away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy\u2019s low surface brightness makes it appear as a faint, starry swarm behind brighter foreground stars that are easily recognized by their\u00a0diffraction spikes. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irregular-galaxies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441405,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441404\/revisions\/441405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}