New Delhi: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy designated as NGC 2775, located at a distance of 67 million lightyears in the constellation of Cancer. The central regions of the galaxy are smooth and featureless, and without any gas, similar to elliptical galaxies. However, the fringes of the galaxy is made up of a dusty ring with patchy star clusters, similar to a spiral galaxy. Astronomers have not been able to classify the galaxy as either a spiral or elliptical. The galaxy is face on, that is the disk is clearly visible and not on the edge, as seen from the vantage point of the Earth.

This face-on orientation makes it difficult to determine of the galaxy is a spiral or an elliptical galaxies. Some astronomers consider NGC 2775 to be a lenticular galaxy, that have features

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