esahubble_heic1903a January 31st, 2019
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.
This image, taken with Hubbles Advanced Camera for Surveys shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752. Behind the bright stars of the cluster a denser collection of faint stars is visible a previously unknown dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This galaxy, nicknamed Bedin 1, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1903a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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