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Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies

Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of NGC 1316 that give evidence of a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies. A pullout from the center of NGC 1316 reveals the fine details captured by Hubble of red star clusters within the dust lanes.
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    March 31, 2005
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The Dusty Galaxy NGC 1316

The Dusty Galaxy NGC 1316

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this...

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