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Big, bright, and beautiful #Messier83 (M83) is a massive, grand design spiral galaxy. It lies a mere 15 million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra.
About 40,000 light-years across, M83 is known as the Southern Pinwheel for its pronounced spiral arms.
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A vintage cover of the Nature Journal, straight out of the eighties
Hydrogen in galaxies (1986) - featuring the southern spiral galaxy M83. The observations were made with the Very Large Array telescope.
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/319/issues/6051
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