Who doesn’t love a little chaos? The stars in this galaxy may look chaotically scattered through the sky, but they’re all held together by gravity. This is an irregular dwarf galaxy, meaning that it doesn’t have a distinctive structure or shape and doesn’t have much dust. Astronomers often see irregular galaxies as they peer deeply into the universe. These galaxies are abundant in the early universe, in the era before spirals and ellipticals developed. As irregular galaxies collide and merge with other galaxies throughout time, they are thought to develop structure and become the spiral and elliptical galaxies we see in today’s universe. At just over 14 million light-years away in the Coma Berenices constellation, it is relatively close to us, allowing us to see many of the individual stars within its bounds. There’s a mix of red and blue stars sprinkled throughout, which tells us that stars have been forming in this galaxy throughout its history. The blue stars are bright, hot, and...