Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:NGC 4414 (NASA-med).jpg/Nom 2

NGC 4414

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Original – The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. In 1999, the Hubble Heritage Team revisited NGC 4414 and completed its portrait by observing the other half with the same filters as were used in 1995. The end result is a stunning full-color look at the entire dusty spiral galaxy. The new Hubble picture shows that the central regions of this galaxy, as is typical of most spirals, contain primarily older, yellow and red stars. The outer spiral arms are considerably bluer due to ongoing formation of young, blue stars, the brightest of which can be seen individually at the high resolution provided by the Hubble camera. The arms are also very rich in clouds of interstellar dust, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight.

Reason

Finest quality image. First nomination failed because of less resolution.

Articles in which this image appears

Galaxy, NGC 4414, Flocculent spiral galaxy, Astrophysics + many others.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Herald talk with me 12:05, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Stable lead image in Galaxy and NGC 4414, so definitely good EV; resolution decent, quality no worse than any other Hubble image of a reasonably distant object. Seems reasonably notable in its own right, despite the formulaic name. Good candidate for FP. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:33, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support. A brilliant image and good EV. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 10:34, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Oh yeah! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 04:55, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Nikhil (talk) 16:21, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:NGC 4414 (NASA-med).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)