by 'Tis the season for twinkling lights, both in your neighborhood and deep in space. To celebrate the festive season, NASA has published this composite image, which resembles something of a wonderland of Christmas lights — or perhaps a colorful snow globe.
The image's subject is the billion-star-containing UGC 8091, an irregular dwarf galaxy located within the constellation Virgo, some 7 million light-years from Earth.
To create the luminous, chromatic effect we see, scientists compiled data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advance Camera for Surveys between 2006 and 2021.
The image's subject is the billion-star-containing UGC 8091, an irregular dwarf galaxy located within the constellation Virgo, some 7 million light-years from Earth.
To create the luminous, chromatic effect we see, scientists compiled data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advance Camera for Surveys between 2006 and 2021.
