Image Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Legacy Archive (STScI/NASA, ST-ECF/ESA, CADC/NRC/CSA)
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M83 Galaxy
A favorite target for amateur astronomers, M83 Galaxy is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Located in the constellation Hydra, M83 lies only 12 million light-years away, making it one of the closest galaxy. Majestic spiral arms gave the galaxy the nickname Southern Pinwheel. This image highlights many reddish regions along the arms dense gas cloud. These are the new stars forming regions. M83 is found to has large number of new stars formation at the outer reach of the spiral arms previously thought to be lack of materials for creating new stars.