{"id":631629,"date":"2026-05-08T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631629\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:32:11","slug":"hubble-captures-traveling-galaxy-in-stunning-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631629\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Captures Traveling Galaxy in Stunning Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"is-style-drop-cap-with-border\">The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an image of a roaming galaxy 50 million light-years away called NGC 3137, but it\u2019s not traveling alone. NGC 3137 is part of a galactic gang of sorts, a cadre of galaxies moving through the cosmos together called the Local Group. This dumbbell shaped formation includes a system of dwarf galaxies clustered around our own Milky Way on one end with a similar system clustered around the much larger Andromeda Galaxy on the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hubble\u2019s recent snapshot of the NGC 3137\u2014a composite of six observations using different color bands\u2014shows the galaxy in astonishing detail. The bright blue spots are all juvenile stars, birthed from the clouds of luminous red gas that envelop them. It\u2019s these nebulae and new stars that are of most interest to astronomers. Within NGC 3137, stars are produced at a rate of half a solar mass per year and observing them can offer astronomers crucial information about the stellar life cycle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1280616\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Currie_BREAKER_875e8b.png\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Image by ESA \/ Hubble &amp; NASA, D. Thilker and the PHANGS-HST Team<\/p>\n<p>From our vantage point on Earth, NGC 3137 can be viewed through the constellation Antlia. This formation was first described in the early 1750s by the French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille who named it in honor of the relatively recent invention of la machine pneumatique\u2014the air pump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit like identifying a constellation today and naming it after the Hubble Space Telescope. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nautilus-favicon-14.png\" style=\"width:14px\" class=\"wp-image-13765\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lead image: ESA \/ Hubble &amp; NASA, D. Thilker and the PHANGS-HST Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an image of a roaming galaxy 50 million light-years away called NGC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-631629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}