This star-churning dwarf galaxy is a tasty cosmic morsel
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Fitting that this juicy piece of eye candy from the Hubble Space Telescope captured a starburst, a brief and intense star-forming period for a galaxy.
Say hello to NGC 1705, a dwarf galaxy about 17 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor, the "painter's easel." NGC has produced many young stars...