August 10, 2026
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- The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning image of a galaxy that defies classification.
- ESO 300-16 is an irregular galaxy, a type of galaxy that lacks a clear shape and structure.
- It located at a distance of 28.7 million lightyears.
| One parsec is equal to 3.26 lightyears, or 30.9 trillion kilometres.
A megaparsec is one million parsecs. |
- The galaxy is located in the constellation of Eridanus, contains a bubble of blue gas at its core and has a backdrop of many distant galaxies.
- ESO 300-16 was captured as part of an imaging campaign known as Every Known Nearby Galaxy, which aims to create a complete inventory of Hubble images of all galaxies within 10 megaparsecs of the Earth, or 6 million lightyears.
- Almost 75% of such galaxies have been imaged already.
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