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Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton
ALMA image of galaxy NGC 4321, also known as Messier 100, an intermediate spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is imaged as part of the PHANGS-ALMA survey to study the properties of star-forming clouds in disk galaxies.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2019-alma-phangs/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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