Zoom on Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 | Hubble

Zoom on Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 | Hubble

The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles and super-bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's vigorous star factories are also manufacturing brilliant blue star clusters. This galaxy had a sudden and relatively recent onset of star birth 25 million years ago, which subsided about the time the very earliest human ancestors appeared on Earth.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA), NASA & Peter Anders (Gottingen University Galaxy Evolution Group, Germany)

Duration: 21 seconds

Release Date: October 24, 2017

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