Ring of young stars!

This is a beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1317. Closer to its center, a ring of bright, massive, blue and young stars clearly stands out. They are definitely young, because such massive blue stars do not live long in principle - which means that they appeared relatively recently (up to several million years ago).

The bright star with four diffraction rays at the bottom of the galaxy is much closer to us - in our galaxy. And just to the left of this star, a reddish elongated spot is a galaxy located much further than NGC 1317. There are other distant galaxies in the frame.