"Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Stunning Cosmic Spectacles"
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the distant galaxy ESO 300-16, located 28.7 million light-years away in the Eridanus constellation. The galaxy appears as a cloud of sparkling stars against the dark backdrop of space. This image is part of a series aimed at surveying Earth's galactic neighbors, with around three-quarters of known galaxies within 10 megaparsecs of Earth already observed by Hubble. ESO 300-16 is classified as an irregular galaxy, resembling a cloud of tiny stars clumped together, with a bubble of bright blue gas at its core.