NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Dwarf Galaxies; it is located at a distance of about 11 million light-years in the direction of the southern constellation Centaurus.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 5253. Superimposed is the gas (fuzzy red to yellow) as seen by the Submillimeter Array. The brightest part of the image is Cloud D.

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, located at a distance of about 11 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian ...

NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a distance of about 12 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

“NGC 5253” Science and Exploration. More Than a Million Stars Forming In a Mysterious Dusty Gas Cloud . Press Release ; March 18, 2015 ...

For the next ten million years, this gaseous influx will likely fuel star formation within NGC 5253 at a rate of up to 0.2 solar masses per year.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012: NGC 5253, one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, lies about 12 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

The star cluster is buried within a massive gas cloud dubbed "Cloud D" in the NGC 5253 dwarf galaxy, and, although it's a billion times brighter than our sun, is barely visible, hidden by its own ...

A dwarf galaxy called NGC 5253 is producing stars at what scientists are describing as a "phenomenal" rate, IFL Science reports. Large nebulae inside galaxies can produce thousands of stars at ...

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, located at a distance of about 11 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian ...