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Image of the Day: In El Dorado

Image source: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Bright spiral arms, dark lanes of dust, and hotbeds of star formation highlight this recent Hubble Space Telescope view of NGC 1672, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation Dorado. The galaxy's nucleus, which contains a supermassive black hole, forms a stretched-out "bar" of stars.

The bright red blobs are stellar nurseries, where hundreds of new stars are being born. Several more-distant galaxies appear around or behind NGC 1672. The bright diamond-like objects are foreground stars in our galaxy.

posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2007 10:27:00 PM