Deformed beauty: Hubble takes a new look at the galaxy Arp 184

The Hubble Space Telescope, seen from the ISS. It orbits around the Earth at a height of more than 500 kilometres. Image: keystoneIn 1788, German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel – known as the discoverer of the planet Uranus – discovered an object on the northern starry sky that he catalogued as "very weak nebula". Today, the nebula in the constellation Giraffe (Camelopardalis) is classified as a galaxy NGC 1961, IC 2133 or Arp 184 with an e…