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This galaxy is one of the finest examples of a spiral galaxy in the sky and is about one degree across. The galaxy is a member of the 30 or so galaxies of the Local Group and is close enough - about 2.5 million light years - for us to study the anatomy of a galaxy in great detail. Many individual bright stars pepper the delicate spiral arms which are in turn sprinkled with pink star-forming regions. Several of the clumps of bright stars and their associated nebulae are bright enough to have been catalogued as separate objects. This image is a 3-colour photographic composition from the Isaac Newton Telescope.
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