New Delhi: A new image of the galaxy that cannot be classified by simple terms has been taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it is a stunning sight of the galaxy called NGC 2775. The galaxy is approximately 67 million light-years distant in the constellation Cancer and features an almost smooth empty centre, similar to an elliptical galaxy. A halo of dust and ragged star clumps surrounding it is more in the form of the arrangement of a spiral galaxy.

Astronomers can only observe the NGC 2775 from a single angle, and that is the reason why it is hard to determine what it actually is. It is dubbed a spiral galaxy by some scientists due to its feathery ring of stars, and some scientists claim that it better fits the lenticular classification, a category that is a blend of spira

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