Star factory: Coddington’s dwarf galaxy in the M81 groups

Star factory: Coddington’s dwarf galaxy in the M81 groups

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf galaxy IC 2574 shows clear evidence of intense star forming activity in its telltale pinkish regions of glowing hydrogen gas. Just as in […]