{"id":257055,"date":"2023-08-23T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257055"},"modified":"2023-08-23T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:28:31","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-captures-image-of-irregular-galaxy-eso-300-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hubble-space-telescope-captures-image-of-irregular-galaxy-eso-300-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope captures image of irregular galaxy ESO 300-16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cHubble Space Telescope captures image of irregular galaxy ESO 300-16\u201d <\/b>\u00a0published in<\/span> News9 on 22nd August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the irregular galaxy named ESO 300-16.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is ESO 300-16?<\/b><\/h2>\n

ESO 300-16 is an irregular galaxy. It is located at a distance of 28.7 million lightyears in the southern constellation of Eridanus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is made of many tiny stars all clumped together, surrounded in a diffuse light. In the central, brightest part there is a bubble of blue gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

The galaxy is surrounded by mostly very small and faint objects, though there are bright stars above and to the left of it, and a string of galaxies nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is an Irregular Galaxy?<\/b><\/h2>\n

An irregular galaxy is a galaxy that does not have a distinct regular shape, unlike a spiral or an elliptical galaxy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Irregular galaxies <\/span>have unusual shapes, like toothpicks, rings, or even little groupings of stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

They range from dwarf irregular galaxies with 100 million times the Sun\u2019s mass to large ones weighing 10 billion solar masses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irregular galaxies may hold significant amounts of gas and dust \u2013 essential ingredients for making new stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Formation<\/b>: Astronomers think these galaxies\u2019 odd shapes are sometimes the result of interactions with others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>For example,<\/b> one spiral galaxy passing another with a stronger gravitational pull could lose some of its material, become distorted, and morph into a new shape. Some, like gas-rich dwarf galaxies, may be new, formed by material pulled from such encounters <\/span>(or)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2013 When galaxies collide, they create a larger, oddly shaped mashup. Some scientists theorize that some large irregular galaxies could represent an intermediate step between spiral and elliptical galaxies.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHubble Space Telescope captures image of irregular galaxy ESO 300-16\u201d \u00a0published in News9 on 22nd August 2023. What is the News? The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the irregular galaxy named ESO 300-16. What is ESO 300-16? ESO 300-16 is an irregular galaxy. It is… Continue reading Hubble Space Telescope captures image of irregular galaxy ESO 300-16<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11854],"class_list":["post-257055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-news9","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}