A HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL LOOK

Here is a very close-up optical image of NGC 4410A, from the Hubble Space Telescope. The field of view is 34"; north is up and east is to the west. Notice the ring-like structure to the northwest, and the knots of star formation on the eastern section of the ring, the especially bright knot to the south of the nucleus, and the dust lanes to the south and east of the nucleus. NGC 4410B is at the edge of the image, to the west.