The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a galaxy that is 100 million light years from Earth and contains billions of stars.
The spiral galaxy, IC 4633, is located in the constellation Apus, Nasa said in a statement.
“IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity and also hosts an active galactic nucleus at its core. From our point of view, the galaxy is tilted mostly towards us, giving astronomers a fairly good view of its billions of stars,” it said.
However, Nasa said that the galaxy’s features are partially obstructed due to a stretch of dark dust which covers the lower right of the picture. The cloud overlapping IC 4633 is a dark nebula, also known as MW9 and the South Celestial Serpent.
“This dark nebula is part of the Chamaeleon star-forming region, itself located only around 50.
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