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A swirling galaxy
Like a portal to another dimension, a hypnotising swirl features in today’s Picture of the Week. This is the spiral galaxy M83 , also known as the Southern Pinwheel , located approximately 15 million light-years away. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky, but this image –– taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), in which ESO is a partner –– doesn’t show how M83 looks in…
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- ESO
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- ALMA
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- potw2640a
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