Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. While this image does not look very dramatic - we might say it looks almost serene - the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic. In fact, the little galaxy […]