In 1900, astronomer DeLail Stewart managed to find the galaxy IC 4710, shown in the image by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is an amazing sight, as there is a lively cloud of bright objects with pockets (birthplaces of new stars) scattered around the edges.
IC 4710 is a dwarf irregular galaxy. Its appearance seems chaotic, that is, you will not find spiral arms or central protuberances. Irregular galaxies are believed to have previously been spiral or elliptical. But gravitational effects or contact and merging with other galaxies have changed their shape. Such objects are important for scientists trying to understand the galactic evolution, because the dwarf irregular resemble the first galaxies that appeared in space. IC 4710 lives on the territory of Peacock and is 25 million light-years distant from us. The constellation also contains the third brightest globular cluster NGC 6752, the spiral galaxy NGC 6744 and six well-known planetary systems (among them HD 181433, in which the super-earth resides).
