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Southern Pinwheel

09 November 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

M83, or the South­ern Pin­wheel, is under­go­ing star for­ma­tion on a much faster scale than our own Milky Way Galaxy. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope cap­tured amaz­ing detail of the curv­ing spi­ral arms and bright galac­tic core of this nearby spi­ral galaxy. The core is the bright whitish area to the right of the image. Fol­low the spi­ral­ing arc of stars. Hun­dreds of thou­sands of young star clus­ters are form­ing along the spi­ral arm. Ancient glob­u­lar clus­ters are also seen in the image.

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