The star party is almost over in a tiny galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth.
WINDING DOWN The inner region (shown here) of the tiny spiral galaxy NGC 2976 has many more young stars (blue dots) than the outer regions and lacks a spiral structure, indicating that NGC 2976 had a grazing collision with one or more nearby galaxies that funneled star-forming gas toward the center.
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