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Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A

By |2025-05-29T09:09:06-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the attention, flaunting young, bright, blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along graceful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A. Its young star clusters and star forming regions are gathered into a [...]

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy

By |2024-04-26T09:09:16-04:00April 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to [...]

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