Dracarys! This spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco is helping astronomers measure the universe

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Dracarys! This spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco is helping astronomers measure the universe
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What it lacks in company it makes up for in character. According to the European Space Agency's description – it manages the iconic observatory alongside NASA – galaxy UGC 9391 is packed with two fascinating light sources: Cepheid variable stars and a Type IAThis full view of the spiral galaxy UGC 9391 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the isolated galaxy against a starry backdrop. Bright nearby stars have diffraction spikes with background galaxies as distant swirls.

"This image is from a set of Hubble observations which astronomers used to construct the 'Cosmic Distance Ladder' – a set of connected measurements that allow astronomers to determine how far the most distant astronomical objects are," ESA writes in the description.are those with changing brightness. Cepheids are a type called intrinsic, meaning it's not that, say, an object orbits the star and blocks its light occasionally.

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