<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><div class=""><div class="feature-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -2em 2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_friday_102315.jpg" data-bindattr-941="941" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""></a></div><section id="ember933" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">This image shows the galaxy Messier 94, which lies in the small northern constellation of the Hunting Dogs, about 16 million light-years away.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Within the bright ring or starburst ring around Messier 94, new stars are forming at a high rate and many young, bright stars are present within it.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">The cause of this peculiarly shaped star-forming region is likely a pressure wave going outwards from the galactic center, compressing the gas and dust in the outer region. The compression of material means the gas starts to collapse into denser clouds. Inside these dense clouds, gravity pulls the gas and dust together until temperature and pressure are high enough for stars to be born.</span></div></div></section></div><div class=""><font color="#4c4c4c" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4c4c4c" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 560.25px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">A Tale of Two Hemispheres</h1></div></div><div class="feature-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -2em 2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia18340-1041.jpg" data-bindattr-935="935" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 100, 150); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""></a></div></div></body></html>