NGC 628, PHANGS-ALMA and HST Composite

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NGC 628, PHANGS-ALMA and HST Composite

Composite ALMA (orange) and Hubble (blue) image of NGC 628, also known as Messier 74, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces, located approximately 32 million light-years from Earth. It is imaged as part of the PHANGS-ALMA survey to study the properties of star-forming clouds in disk galaxies.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); NASA/Hubble

Technical Details
Telescope	ALMA; ALMA; HST
Date	2017-10-04T14:00:55.074000
Center	RA: 1:36:41.7, Dec: 15:47:01
Field of View	5.1 x 5.1 arcminutes

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