Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cosmic glitter

Cosmic glitter

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Original – NGC 1427A, appearing here to be glitter in space, is an irregular galaxy. It is "passing through the Fornax cluster at nearly 600 kilometers per second" and is approximately 51.9 million light years from Earth.

Reason

Encyclopedic illustration of an irregular galaxy, and is the lede image for two articles.

Articles in which this image appears

Galaxy, Irregular galaxy, NGC 1427A

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 18:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support Standard amount of noise for a long-exposure image. High quality overall. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:55, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- per Adam -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 10:24, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support Hafspajen (talk) 11:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support Glittery. Belle (talk) 08:12, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Jobas (talk) 18:37, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Irregular galaxy NGC 1427A (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:41, 29 July 2015 (UTC)