 This small, irregular galaxy is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors and is considered prototypical of the earliest fragmentary galaxies that inhabited the young universe. What's striking about NGC 6822 is its unusually high abundance of H2 region emission nebula. These are visible surrounding the small galaxy. This is one of them. The glowing gas cloud called Hubble 5 has a diameter of about 200 light-years. A faint tail of nebulosity trailing off the top of the image sits opposite a dense cluster of bright stars at the bottom of the irregular-shaped nebula.