Hubble Space Telescope gets up close and personal with our neighbours
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By getting to know our neighbours out in space, astronomers can determine what types of stars reside in various nearby galaxies and Hubble Space Telescope is helping map out the local structure of the Universe.
Recently NASA has released an image of galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus by the Hubble Space Telescope. In the Image, LEDA 48062 is the faint, sparse, amorphous galaxy on the right side of the image, and it is accompanied by a more sharply defined neighbor on the left, the large, disc-like lenticular galaxy UGC 8603. A smattering of more distant galaxies also litters the background, and a handful of foreground stars are also visible throughout the image. The center of attraction in the image are stars surrounded by four sharp points. These points are call...