IC 776 - what does it seems to you? Write in the comments!
But I see you reading the caption…
It's both a dwarf galaxy and a "weakly barred" spiral galaxy – it has a ragged, disturbed central disc that spirals around the galactic core with arcs of star-forming regions.
Located about 100 million light-years away, IC 776 is in the constellation Virgo. Studying dwarf galaxies like the one in this image is important to our understanding of the evolution of galaxies and our universe.
A spiral galaxy viewed tilted at a diagonal angle and toward the viewer. The core and the disk of the galaxy are different colors but are otherwise difficult to tell apart. The disc has wispy, ragged edges and many arcs of glowing, star-forming patches. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around the spiral galaxy, as are several foreground stars.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun
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