"Hubble telescope reveals ethereal galaxy illuminating the cosmos"
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of a distant lenticular galaxy, NGC 6684, located approximately 44 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. Lenticular galaxies, which have a central bulge and disk but lack distinct arms, emit a pale light due to their older stellar populations and lack of interstellar matter. The image was taken as part of a census of nearby galaxies, aiming to observe all galaxies within 32.6 million light-years that the telescope has not already visited.