Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory | Popular Science

Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory | Popular Science

The NGC 2775 galaxy, nestled 67 million light-years (20.5 parsecs) away in the Cancer constellation, appears in all its fluffy glory in this image by the Hubble Space Telescope. The fuzziness is caused by patchy gas — star-production factories — along its spiral arms. (Popular Science | 6 min read) (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla))