A Hubble Space Telescope image of the quiescent elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. (IMAGE)

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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the quiescent elliptical galaxy NGC 4150.

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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the quiescent elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. In this star formation has essentially shut down.

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NASA, ESA, R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk (University of Oxford), M. Mutchler (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee

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