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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
The Star Clusters of NGC 1313
Explanation:
Like grains of sand [ http://astronomy.sw…] on a cosmic beach, individual stars of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are resolved in this sharp composite [ http://hubblesite.o…] from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS [ http://hubblesite.o…instruments/acs/ ]). The inner region of the galaxy is pictured [ http://hubblesite.o…fastfacts/ ], spanning about 10,000 light-years. Hubble's unique ability to distinguish individual stars in the 14 million light-year distant galaxy has been used to unravel the fate [ http://en.wikipedia…] of star clusters whose bright young stars are spread through the disk of the galaxy as the clusters dissolve [ http://arxiv.org/ab…]. The exploration [ http://hubblesite.o…full/ ] of stars and clusters in external galaxy NGC 1313 offers clues to star formation and star cluster evolution [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in our own Milky Way.
Credit and Copyright:
//www.nasa.gov/home/ index.html">NASA, ESA [ http://www.spacetel…], Anne Pellerin (STScI [ http://www.stsci.ed…])
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Advanced Camera for Surveys
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_what:
New General Catalogue (NGC)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap070126

The Star Clusters of NGC 1313
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