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Grand design spiral galaxy NGC 4254 or Messier 99 seen as only Hubble can see, with a full set of nearly visible light red, blue, and green filters, with extra near-ultraviolet data to make those young blue star clusters pop.

Data from the illustrious PHANGS-HST program were used to create this image. archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...

More on PHANGS here: phangs.stsci.edu/

A single F814W exposure also uses data from the following proposal: PTF10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Messier 99

Red: WFC3/UVIS F814W Green: WFC3/UVIS F555W Blue: WFC3/UVIS F438W+F336W+F275W

North is 26.9° counter-clockwise from up.
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Author Judy Schmidt

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