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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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Title:
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NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap
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NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap
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Can this be a spiral galaxy? In fact, NGC 3314 [ http://oposite.stsc…] consists of two large spiral galaxies [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] which just happen to almost exactly line-up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are also seen [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] to echo the face-on spiral's structure. The dust lanes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of [ http://www.astr.ua.…] overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of visible light can be used to directly explore the distribution [ http://www.astr.ua.…] of dust in distant spirals. NGC 3314 is [ http://heritage.sts…] about 140 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydra [ http://www.astronom…hya.html ]. Just released [ http://heritage.sts…], this color composite was constructed from Hubble Space Telescope images made in 1999 and 2000.
Explanation
Can this be a spiral galaxy? In fact, NGC 3314 [ http://oposite.stsc…] consists of two large spiral galaxies [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] which just happen to almost exactly line-up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are also seen [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] to echo the face-on spiral's structure. The dust lanes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of [ http://www.astr.ua.…] overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of visible light can be used to directly explore the distribution [ http://www.astr.ua.…] of dust in distant spirals. NGC 3314 is [ http://heritage.sts…] about 140 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydra [ http://www.astronom…hya.html ]. Just released [ http://heritage.sts…], this color composite was constructed from Hubble Space Telescope images made in 1999 and 2000. Explanation
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Credit and Copyright:
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Credit_and_Copyright
Credit and Copyright
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keyword:
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spiral galaxy
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spiral galaxy
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keyword:
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dust
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keyword:
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NGC 3314
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keyword:
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galaxy pair
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galaxy pair
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facet_when:
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1999
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1999
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facet_where:
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NGC 3314
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NGC 3314
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Alabama
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Alabama
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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facet_what:
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Aura
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Aura
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Crux
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Crux
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facet_what:
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Visible Light
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Visible Light
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facet_what:
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Hydra
facet_what
Hydra
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facet_what:
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Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_what
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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facet_what:
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New General Catalogue (NGC)
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New General Catalogue (NGC)
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facet_when_year:
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1999
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1999
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original url:
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original url
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UID:
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SPD-APOD-ap000511
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SPD-APOD-ap000511
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