A new Hubble image of galaxy IC 335 shows it to be a galaxy full of stars with a flat shape not different from Milky Way. Although the Milky Way contains huge collections of nebulae and dust clouds, IC 335 appears to have no 'interstellar medium'.

"It clearly isn't an elliptical galaxy since it looks flat, but it doesn't seem to have matter between the stars. so the scientists involved classify it as an intermediate type between spirals and ellipticals", Dr. Jay M. Pasachoff, professor of astronomy at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts told The Huffington Post in an email. Pasachoff also co-authored The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium.

IC 335 is a member of a large cluster of galaxies located in the constellation Fornax, about 60 million light-years from the Milky Way. The Fornax Cluster consists of about 100 galaxies located in a volume of space just 10 million light-years across. So, it's a very tight family of galaxies moving through space at several million miles per hour.

Most of the galaxies in this cluster are only 30,000 to 50,000 light-years across, together with IC 335, however, NGC 1316 and NGC 1365 are as large as Milky Way and have a diameter of more than 200,000 light-years.