Canis Major Dwarf: Located in the located in the Canis Major constellation, this dwarf irregular galaxy is the closest to our Milky Way, located at an approximate distance of about 25,000 light ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

Galaxy clusters are some of the ... ongoing star formation—and also hosts some irregular galaxies. A plethora of rarer, low-luminosity dwarf galaxies have been found in the cluster, including ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are, as their name suggests ... but it could be that reionization was irregular and didn’t occur everywhere at the same time. We’ve found three galaxies of this kind, but it ...

Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.

Dwarf galaxies may contain less than a thousand ... Instead, it's thought that many irregular galaxies might be spiral ...

The Antlia galaxy cluster is a group of at least 230 galaxies held together by gravity; this cluster is unusual — unlike most other galaxy clusters, it appears to have no dominant galaxy within it.

The holiday globe of stars, UGC 8091, is classified by astronomers as an irregular galaxy. The Red Rectangle Nebula ... NGC 248 is a radiant nebula within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy ...