Sunny Priyan
The Hubble Space Telescope captures NGC 1317's bright blue ring of young stars in Fornax, 50 million light-years away.
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NGC 1317 is one of a pair, but its rowdy larger neighbor, NGC 1316, lies outside Hubble’s field of view.
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Despite its neighboring galaxy's absence, NGC 1317 appears alongside two cosmic companions. A crisscrossed star from our galaxy and a distant red smudge lie beyond.
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The data presented in this image are from a vast observing campaign of hundreds of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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Hubble and ALMA together reveal how cold gas clouds birth fiercely hot, young stars. ALMA maps gas across the universe, while Hubble measures star clusters’ age and mass.
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Telescope teamwork across the spectrum fuels exciting astronomical discoveries. Hubble’s observations paved the way for the James Webb Space Telescope’s groundbreaking science.
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