November 22, 2024

Hubble Space Telescope spots an ‘oddball’ starburst

A new image of the dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. Video: Dwarf galaxys black hole sets off star formationIrregular dwarf galaxies like this typically have fewer aspects than bigger galaxies and consist mainly of hydrogen and helium. Hubble last peered out at NGC 1705 in 1999 when astronomers utilized the telescopes camera (at the time, it was the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2) to observe the galaxys.