NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of the tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31, nicknamed the “Peekaboo Galaxy,” despite its proximity to a bright foreground star. In addition to Hubble imagery, astronomers used the South African Large Telescope to collect detailed spectroscopic data on the galaxy’s stars, which show it to be one of the least chemically enriched galaxies ever discovered in the local universe. Credits: NASA, ESA, and Igor Karachentsev (SAO RAS); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the distant, early universe...
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