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NGC 4314 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. Perhaps the most prominent and unusual feature is its "nuclear starbust ring." It is thought that this explosion of star formation has occurred over the past few millions of years. This time frame is remarkably short in astronomical terms because most main sequence stars have lifetimes of billions of years and their birth is not usually uniform throughout a galaxy. Further study will be required to understand more about the evolution of such ring structures in galaxies.

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+'''NGC 4314''' is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.  Perhaps the most prominent and unusual feature is its "nuclear starbust ring."  It is thought that this explosion of star formation has occurred over the past few millions of years.  This time frame is remarkably short in astronomical terms because most  main sequence stars have lifetimes of billions of years and their birth is not usually uniform throughout a galaxy.  Further study will be required to understand more about the evolution of such ring structures in galaxies.
-| name = [[New General Catalogue|NGC]] 4314
-| image = [[Image:NGC4314.jpg|250px]]
-<small>A [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST) image of NGC 4314.<br/>Credit: HST/[[NASA]]/[[ESA]].</small>
-| epoch = [[J2000]]
-| type = SB(rs)a<ref name="ned">{{cite web
-  | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
-  | work=Results for NGC 4314
-  | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
-  | accessdate=2007-04-05}}</ref>
-| ra = {{RA|12|22|32}}<ref name="ned" />
-| dec = {{DEC|+29|53|43}}<ref name="ned" />
-| dist_ly =
-| z = 963 ± 5 [[kilometer|km]]/[[second|s]]<ref name="ned" />
-| appmag_v = 11.4<ref name="ned" />
-| size_v =  6&prime;.4 &times; 5&prime;.5<ref name="ned" />
-| constellation name = [[Coma Berenices]]
-| notes =
-| names = [[Uppsala General Catalogue|UGC]] 7443,<ref name="ned" /> [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 40097<ref name="ned" />
-}}
-'''NGC 4314''' is a [[barred spiral galaxy]] approximately 40 million [[light-years]] away in the [[constellation]] [[Coma Berenices]].  Perhaps the most prominent and unusual feature is its "nuclear starbust ring."  It is thought that this explosion of star formation has occurred over the past few millions of years.  This time frame is remarkably short in astronomical terms due to the fact that most  [[main sequence]] stars have lifetimes of billions of years and their birth is not usually uniform throughout a galaxy.  Further study will be required to understand more about the evolution of such ring structures in galaxies.
 ==External links==
 * [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991212.html '''APOD''': December 12, 1999]
 * [http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/2002/0409.html '''McDonald Observatory''': 9 April 2002 News Release]
-* [http://www.spacetelescope.org/bin/images.pl?searchtype=freesearch&string=4314 NGC 4314 at ESA/Hubble]
+* [http://www.spacetelescope.org/bin/images.pl?searchtype=freesearch&string=4314 '''ESA/Hubble''' NGC 4314]
-==References==
-<div class="references-small"><references/></div>
+[[Category:Spiral galaxies]]
+[[Category:Barred spiral galaxies]]
+[[Category:Coma Berenices constellation]]
 [[Category:NGC objects|4314]]
+[[Category:UGC objects|07443]]
 [[Category:PGC objects|40097]]
-[[Category:Barred spiral galaxies]]
+{{ntnes}}
-[[Category:Spiral galaxies]]
-[[de:NGC 4314]]
-[[eo:NGC 4314]]
-[[lb:NGC 4314]]
-[[pt:NGC 4314]]
-[[ru:NGC 4314]]
-[[sk:NGC 4314]]

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