As a Christmas present to the world, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released to the world the latest Hubble telescope galaxy images, showing a sideway view to a recently discovered galaxy more than 60 million light years away.
For science geeks around the world, Christmas came exactly a day early, as NASA release the new Hubble telescope galaxy pictures on December 24, showing the latest discovery of this galaxy that has proven to feature properties of all the known types of galaxies in the universe.
According to The Huffington Post, the new Hubble telescope galaxy photo reveals that the galaxy mixes up the three different known and broad categories of galaxies existing in the universe: spiral, elliptical and irregular. It seems that the galaxy, dubbed IC 335, could potentially have an intermediate shape, though it's not easy to tell accurately due to our position on Earth; from our planet, only the edge of IC 335 is visible.
In the NASA press release from Christmas Eve, it's stated that the Hubble telescope galaxy picture is sideways due to our planet's vantage point, which makes it harder for astronomers to properly classify it, due to the fact that many of the characteristics of the morphology of a galaxy can actually be seen from its face. In any case, from the current information, it's clear that the galaxy (which is 45,000 light years long) can be currently classified as a type S0.
According to Bustle, IC 335 can be found in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, and it's one of four galaxies in its group in the area; apparently, the newly discovered galaxy consists mostly of aging stars, and in the picture it can be seen in front of a few other different galaxies - but, in any case, the latest Hubble telescope NASA photo is breathtakingly beautiful!
