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Astronomy Picture of the Day
This beautiful image shows one of the spiral arms of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M83 or NGC 5236.
This galaxy is located about 15-million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.
M83 is a barred spiral galaxy and is one of the closest such objects to Earth; it is easily visible with binoculars.
This particular image, taken in 2009 by the Hubble Space telescope, imaged wavelengths from ultraviolet and near-infrared, revealing the history of star formation in this sector of the galaxy.
Here, you can see M83’s galactic core, many bright blue star forming areas containing stars between 1 and 10 million years, and the remnants of about 60 supernovae.
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