The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this captivating image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, is a ghostly assemblage of stars that resembles a sparkling cloud. A rogue’s gallery of distant galaxies and foreground
that resembles a sparkling cloud. A rogue’s gallery of distant galaxies and foreground stars completes this astronomical portrait, which was captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys .This particular observation is one of a series that aims to get to know our galactic neighbors.
A team of astronomers proposed using small gaps in Hubble’s observing schedule to investigate the remaining quarter of the nearby galaxies.— meaning one million parsecs — is a unit of length used by astronomers to chart the mind-bogglingly large distances involved in astronomy. The motion of Earth around the Sun means that stars appear to slightly shift against very distant stars over the course of a year.
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