Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  HD118333  ·  M 83  ·  NGC 5236  ·  Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
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M83 (The Southern Pinwheel), galactic_surfer
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M83 (The Southern Pinwheel)

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M83 (The Southern Pinwheel)

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Messier 83, located in Hydra, is about 15 million light-years away from Earth. From NASA.gov: "The newest generations of stars in M83 are forming largely in clusters on the edges of the dark, spiraling dust lanes. These brilliant, young stellar groupings are only a few million years old and produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light. That light is absorbed by the surrounding diffuse gas clouds, causing them to glow in pinkish hydrogen light."

Multi-night data from April 2023 captured by Telescope.live.

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M83 (The Southern Pinwheel), galactic_surfer