Hubble images the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1827 in Columba

16 October 2026

NASA has published a Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1827, an edge-on intermediate spiral galaxy roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. The image was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. It forms part of a survey of 260 satellite galaxies around 22 host galaxies similar to the Milky Way, all within about 32 million light-years of Earth. Hubble has observed 111 of those satellites so far, and the remaining 149 will take one orbit each. The disk shows bright blue regions with dark dust lanes where new stars are likely forming. The survey's low-mass galaxies can help test cosmological models on small scales, where the models have had trouble matching observations.