... The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. ... Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ...
... ring plane, an event that provides astronomers an opportunity to discover new ... satellite for the F ring which may account for the ring's braided appearance ... light from the rings and accentuate any faint satellites orbiting near the rings ...
... polar-ring" galaxy NGC 4650A. Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A ... ring, and the presence of young stars below the main ring on one side and above on ...
... STScI-PRC98-21 A BRIGHT RING OF STAR BIRTH AROUND A GALAXY'S CORE An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. ...
... The striking ring-like feature is a direct result of a smaller intruder galaxy -- possibly one of two objects to the right of the ring -- that careened through the core of the host galaxy. ...
... The star has a unique circumstellar ring of glowing gas that is a galactic twin to the famous ring around the supernova 1987A. The grayish-bluish color of the ring and the bipolar outflows (blobs to the upper right and lower left of the star) indicates ...
... of complete rings, but Voyager 2 's images showed them to be complete rings with ... rings have been given names: the outermost is Adams (which contains three prominent ...