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Ring of Stellar Fire

This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows where the action is taking place in galaxy NGC 1291. The outer ring, colored red, is filled with new stars that are igniting and heating up dust that glows with infrared light.

Date
2014-10-22
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Ring of Stellar Fire" (2014-10-22). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18847

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