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Messier83 - Heic1403a
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
2014-01-09
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1403a/
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. One of the largest and closest barred spirals to us, this galaxy is dramatic and mysterious; it has hosted a large number of supernova explosions, and appears to have a double nucleus lurking at its core.
