Friday 18 April 2008

Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness


Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA/MPIA
This striking image is a composite of ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and radio data from the Very Large Array in New Mexico, and shows the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, also known simply as M83. The image presents young stars sprouting up in a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center. (read more)

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