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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4789A, a ‘dwarf irregular’ …

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4789A, a ‘dwarf irregular’ galaxy. It certainly lives up to its name — the stars here are smeared out across the sky in an apparently disorderly and irregular jumble, giving NGC 4789A a far more subtle and abstract appearance than its more regular spiral and elliptical cousins. See http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1646a/