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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
data of NGC 253 provide a detailed
view of the central 5,800 light years.
In the image to the left, the HST view is overlaid on a photograph (by David Malin) taken
at the Anglo-Australian
Observatory. This shows the relationship
of the HST field of view to the full structure
of this starbursting, barred spiral galaxy
(diameter of 60,000 light years).
Detailed comparisons
of this central region. |
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The glowing region, surrounded
by a box in this lower resolution display
of the Hubble Heritage
image, has been studied in detail
by Dr. Alan
Watson and his collaborators. This
central region is presented in the images
below.
(Click on the image for the higher resolution
displays of the Hubble Heritage image.) |
The image on the left was previously
released as a news item in 1995. The
higher resolution tiff
image is also available. (The orientation
of the images in the previous release
are North to the top and East to the left.) |
The image on the right is of hydrogen
gas heated (ionized) by young stars,
such as those contained in Super
Star Clusters. |
