Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  HD88959  ·  HD89053  ·  NGC 3181  ·  NGC 3184  ·  PGC 2177468  ·  PGC 2181848  ·  PGC 2182819  ·  PGC 2182937  ·  PGC 2183464  ·  PGC 3095935
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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, Aaron Freimark
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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy

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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, Aaron Freimark
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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy

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My "colorful" photos are usually nebulae, clouds of excited gas, nurseries for stars, which are always within our own galaxy. Monday's photo, for example, was within 10 light years of us. Galaxies are far, far more distant. This is NGC 3184, the "Little Pinwheel" galaxy. It is 40 million light years from Earth.

But zoom in on the galaxies, and try to spot the magenta/red structures. Those are star-forming nebulae within this distant galaxy.

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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, Aaron Freimark