--- title: Hubble Captures Image of Stellar Fireworks description: A rare view of a galaxy type that usually only occurs when viewing the early universe canonical: https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/ author: Marisa Gertz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-28T18:34:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:54:45.917Z article:section: Science og:title: Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stellar Fireworks og:description: A rare galaxy type that usually only occurs when viewing the early universe. og:url: https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf18e0904988fde7/698899c6656a3f086cbcc158/hubble-skyrocket-galaxy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1391 og:image:height: 782 og:image:alt: hubble-skyrocket-galaxy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stellar Fireworks twitter:description: A rare galaxy type that usually only occurs when viewing the early universe. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf18e0904988fde7/698899c6656a3f086cbcc158/hubble-skyrocket-galaxy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stellar Fireworks > Sponsored content. 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Hubble captured this image of [dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639](http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/23/) in a firestorm of star birth. Although the galaxy is actually pancake-shaped, from our perspective it resembles a rocket streaking across the sky (because it’s tilted). The bright pink glow at one end of the galaxy comes from new stars lighting up clouds of hydrogen gas. The more subdued tail end also contains star forming regions, thought to be older than those in the head. The galaxy is relatively close to us, at 82 million light-years away, which is rare for this type of [galaxy](http://time.com/3197023/giant-galaxy-sparky-nasa-space/), which is typically found only at larger distances, while observing the universe during earlier epochs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/"},"headline":"Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stellar Fireworks","datePublished":"2016-06-28T18:34:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:54:45.917Z","description":"Just in time for the Fourth of July","url":"https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/","keywords":["Space","NASA","Science topic","Hubble Space Telescope"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf18e0904988fde7/698899c6656a3f086cbcc158/hubble-skyrocket-galaxy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Marisa Gertz","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/marisa-gertz/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf18e0904988fde7/698899c6656a3f086cbcc158/hubble-skyrocket-galaxy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hubble-skyrocket-galaxy","caption":"Kiso 5639 skyrocket galaxy","creditText":"NASA/ESA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4385965/hubble-telescope-stellar-fireworks/","name":"Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stellar Fireworks"}}]}] ```