NGC 3314 is a pair of overlapping spiral galaxies between 117 and 140 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This unique alignment gives astronomers the opportunity to measure the properties of interstellar dust in the face-on foreground galaxy (NGC 3314a).

2000年5月11日 · NGC 3314 lies about 140 million light-years from Earth, in the direction of the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. The bright blue stars forming a pinwheel shape near the center of the front galaxy have formed recently from interstellar gas and dust.

NGC 3314是 长蛇座 的一个 深空天体，由NGC 3314a（前）和NGC 3314b（后）两个 漩涡星系 重叠组成，距离我们有1.17亿 光年 和1.4亿光年远。 NGC 3314由两个几乎完全排成一列的大 旋涡星系 构成。 前景旋涡星系看起来刚好面对我们，许多年轻的明亮星团构成了它的风车形状。 在背景星系辉光的反衬下，面对我们的前景星系呈现出星际尘埃的暗黑螺旋带，显示出旋涡星系的结构。 这些尘埃带厚实得令人惊讶，而且这对明显的重叠星系是能吸收见光的少数系统之一，过 …

This Hubble image of NGC 1376 reveals how the overlapping galaxy NGC 3314A might look if it were seen alone in space. NGC 3370, shown in this Hubble image, has the same general shape and orientation as the overlapping galaxy NGC 3314B.

2012年6月14日 · NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten …

2021年11月17日 · 这张哈勃主题影像所呈现的NGC 3314，是在视线上几乎完美重叠的二个大螺旋星系。 位在前景的NGC 3314a是个正向的螺旋星系，它明亮年轻星团的排列形式，让它带着风车的外观。

2011年7月15日 · NGC 3314 is about 140 million light-years (background galaxy) and 117 million light-years (foreground galaxy) away in the multi-headed constellation Hydra. The background galaxy would span nearly 70,000 light-years at its estimated distance.

The featured Hubble image of NGC 3314 shows two large spiral galaxies which happen to line up exactly. The foreground spiral NGC 3314a appears nearly face-on with its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters.

The dust lanes are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of visible light can be used to directly explore the distribution of dust in distant spirals. NGC 3314 is about 140 million light-years away in the multi-headed constellation Hydra.

2000年5月11日 · This new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) shows the unique galaxy pair called NGC 3314. Through an extraordinary chance alignment, a face-on spiral galaxy …