Barred Spiral Galaxy, Ngc 4314
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Barred Spiral Galaxy, Ngc 4314
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This close-up view by Hubble also shows other interesting details in the galaxy's core dust lanes, a smaller bar of stars, dust and gas embedded in the stellar ring, and an extra pair of spiral arms packed with young stars. These details make the centreresemble a miniature version of a spiral galaxy. While it is not unusual to have dust lanes and rings of gas in the centers of galaxies, it is uncommon to have spiral arms full of young stars in the cores. NGC 4314 is one of the nearest (only 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices) examples of a galaxy with a ring of infant stars close to the core. This stellar ring, whose radius is a thousand light-years, is a great laboratory to study star formation in galaxies.
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