Panning across Dwarf Starburst Galaxy ESO 495-21 | Hubble

Panning across Dwarf Starburst Galaxy ESO 495-21 | Hubble

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the galaxy ESO 495-21, about 30 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is classified as a dwarf starburst galaxy—despite its tiny size the galaxy is producing new stars at a fierce rate. The pan shows the many young, hot and blue stars being formed as well as the huge reservoirs of gas for even more stars. In the center of the galaxy, invisible even to Hubble, lurks a supermassive black hole—an unusual component for a galaxy of this size.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: July 4, 2019

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