NASA
Gallery · APOD
M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and blue star clusters lend this galaxy its popular name, the Southern Pinwheel. Still, reddish star forming regions that dot this cosmic pinwheel's spiral arms have suggested another nickname, the Thousand-Ruby Galaxy. A…
- Credit
- APOD · Aldo Zanetti
- Release
- ap260911
- Licence
- Credit as published
- Published
- Source
- APOD release page
- Full size
- Original file