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Close-Up View of Galaxy NGC 4314

Close-Up View of Galaxy NGC 4314
This image, shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. The lanes of dust are being shepherded into the ring by the longer, primary stellar bar seen in the ground-based image. The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction.
  • Object Name
    Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
    NGC 4314
  • Release Date
    June 11, 1998
  • Science Release
    A Bright Ring of Star Birth around a Galaxy’s Core
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  • Credit
    Credits: G. Fritz Benedict, Andrew Howell, Inger Jorgensen, David Chapell (University of Texas), Jeffery Kenney (Yale University), and Beverly J. Smith (CASA, University of Colorado), and NASA

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A Bright Ring of Star Birth Around Core of Galaxy NGC 4314 (right), and Ground-Based Image (left)

A Bright Ring of Star Birth Around Core of Galaxy NGC 4314 (right), and Ground-Based Image (left)

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. This stellar nursery, whose inhabitants were created within the past 5 million years, is the only place in the entire galaxy...

McDonald Observatory image of NGC 4314

McDonald Observatory image of NGC 4314

The image, taken in February 1996 by the 30-inch telescope Prime Focus Camera at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, shows the entire galaxy, including the bar of stars bisecting the core and the outer spiral arms, which begin near the ends of this bar.

McDonald with HST/WFPC2 inset

McDonald with HST/WFPC2 inset

Galaxy NGC 4314

Galaxy NGC 4314

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Mar 28, 2025
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