The Hubble Space Telescope caught a large group of stars, known as the Virgo Cluster.
Hubble and other telescopes are working together to provide more information about huge collections of stars.
The European Space Agency said in a statement that the galaxy is part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. The Local Group includes our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Astronomers want to learn more about how stars are formed and how galaxies evolve over billions of years by examining them in context of their environments.
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The fresh image of NGC 4571 is part of an observation program that combines work from Hubble with work from the ground-based ALMA in Chile.
ALMA has millimeter wavelength that allows the 66 telescopes of the Chilean array to peer through dust at high resolution.
The space agency explained that ALMA can detect the clouds of cool interstellar dust which give rise to new stars, while Hubble can help locate hot, glowing, newly formed stars.
The project aims to provide a database of star-forming areas for future science, including deep-space observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. The work on the mirrors and instruments is expected to start in June.
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