LONDON: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of a solitary galaxy so far from any galactic neighbor it’s been dubbed the “Lost-In-Space galaxy.”
As vast as the universe is, isolated galaxies are rare, as most are found in groups or clusters, and seldom is another galaxy very far away.
However, galaxy NGC 6503 sits alone at the edge of an empty region of space astronomers call the Local Void, an area 150 million light years across that puzzles astronomers with its curious absence of galaxies.
Its isolation led astronomer Stephen James O’Meara to call it the “Lost-In-Space galaxy” in 2007 in his book “Hidden Treasures.”
Although sitting all alone in its local region, NGC 6503 is not that far from us, just 18 million light years away in the constellation Draco, the Dragon.
The new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy shows an almost nonexistent central bulge within a massive surrounding halo of gas.
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