Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy with Gas-Free Center and Dusty Ring

Hubble captures puzzling galaxy with gas-free center and dusty ring

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It also has a dusty ring with patchy star clusters, like a spiral galaxy. Which is it: spiral or elliptical—or neither?

Hubble finds a hybrid galaxy with a mysterious and violent past

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of past galactic mergers.

This feathery galaxy refuses to be defined even in new Hubble telescope images

A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after NASA released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy about 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer has some distinctive features, but none that can completely define it, according to NASA.HOW THE TELESCOPE BECAME OUR WINDOW INTO OUR UNIVERSE"NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that i…