Hubble captures image of NGC 1827 in galaxy survey

Hubble captured an image of NGC 1827, an edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy. The image was taken as part of a survey.

NGC 1827 is an edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy in Columba, located 37,000,000 light-years away.

Hubble captured the image as part of a survey involving 260 satellite galaxies and 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies.

A distance of 32,000,000 light-years is also listed for the survey.

Hubble observed 111 satellite galaxies.

The work involved 149 Hubble orbits and 1 orbit per galaxy.

The observations used the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

The galaxy's disk shows bright-blue regions and dark dust lanes.

A bright foreground star appears left of the galaxy's bright central bulge, between us and the galaxy, and shows 4 diffraction spikes from the internal supports of Hubble's secondary mirror.

Low-mass galaxies provide a way to test predictions made by cosmological models, and those models struggle to match observations.

Hubble data can help researchers understand low-mass galaxies and refine cosmological models.

For readers tracking NASA, the report lists Claire Andreoli with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.