A Bright Ring Of Star Birth Around A Galaxy's Core (PR98-21)

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STScI-PR98-21
June 10, 1998

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June 10, 1998

The right-hand 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 (left-hand) image. The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction.

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