You can get a good look at a dwarf galaxy named LEDA 677373 thanks to the latest image from NASA’s Hubble Space telescope, even though it’s located 14 million light-years away from us.
This particular dwarf galaxy contains a plentiful reservoir of gas which means it could form stars, but it won’t. The galaxy is at least six billion years old, so that’s plenty of time to form stars.
The problem? The nearby spiral galaxy called Messier 83. It seems to be stealing gas from the dwarf galaxy and that’s stopping new stars from being born.
Because dwarf galaxies are so small, we can only explore the galaxies that are closest to us.