ALMA image of NGC 3627 shows a face-on barred spiral galaxy. A series of filaments outline the galaxy's diagonal bar and two spiral arms, forming an S-shape.

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1. Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 22:36:58 UTC Kelly Lepo

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   This image of NGC 3627, taken with ALMA, shows the location of cold clouds of molecular gas. It’s in these cold, dusty clouds that new stars form.

   Like the Hubble and JWST images, this was taken as part of the PHANGS program, which makes high-resolution observations of galaxies with telescopes operating at many different wavelengths of light. Their goal is to understand how the small-scale details of how stars form influence the large-scale structures of galaxies.

   📷 https://www.eso.org/public/images/ngc3627-alma-cc/
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