Press Release - NGC 1326
R. Buta, D. A. Crocker, and G. G. Byrd
Text of Press Release
Accompanying Illustrations
See below for the color image.
Ground-based blue light CCD image of NGC 1326, a
mult-ringed, barred spiral 62 million light years away in the constellation
Fornax. Image taken with
the 1.5-m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, by
R. Buta and D. Crocker.
A color-composite image of the nuclear ring in NGC 1326,
based on five Hubble Space Telescope images. The many
stellar-like objects are massive, young clusters of stars that
line the ring. These clusters are mostly less than 10 million years
old, but a few are as much as 200 million years old. Also seen is a strong dust pattern inside the ring.
