On October 16, 2026, NASA released a Hubble Space Telescope image featuring the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827. The galaxy is located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.
The Hubble Survey
Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies within a radius of about 32 million light-years from Earth. Low-mass galaxies like the ones in this Hubble observing program provide a way to test the predictions of cosmological models on small scales, which struggle to match observations.
Image Credits
The image was credited to NASA, ESA, and Michael Jones from the California Institute of Technology. Image processing was handled by Gladys Kober of NASA and the Catholic University of America.
Key facts and where they come from
- The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827.
features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827
- NGC 1827 is located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.
located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.
- The image is part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies.
part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way-like host galaxies within a radius of about 32 million light-years from Earth.