# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtkE9xkSenT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/7448137-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9b4202f552.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-06-16T19:54:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Highly irregular 🧐

This NASAHubble image features an irregular galaxy—meaning that it's not a spiral (like our Milky Way) or an ellipse. Instead, this galaxy has a distinct bar in the center, surrounded by a haze of stars. 

Known officially as NGC 7292, this galaxy lies 44 million light-years from Earth, and can be seen in the constellation Pegasus. NGC 7292 is particularly interesting to astronomers because it was the site of a massive supernova, or stellar explosion, first observed nearly 60 years ago.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick

Image description: A faint bluish-white haze of stars takes up most of this image, with a slightly denser line of stars running through its center. Brighter, four-pointed stars and faintly visible orange galaxies surround it on the image's left and bottom.

#NASA #Stars #Galaxies #Astrophotography #Hubble #NASAHubble

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stars, nasahubble, nasa, hubble, galaxies, astrophotography

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