HUBBLE ATLAS

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Pan: A dishevelled irregular galaxy

June 12, 2023 · ESA/Hubble

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The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by a handful of bright stars and the indistinct smudges of extremely distant galaxies in the background. It lies around 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.