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Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager,
Torsten Grossmann
Explanation:
This elegant island universe is cataloged
as
NGC 2683.
It lies a mere 16 million light-years distant toward
the northern constellation
Lynx.
A spiral galaxy comparable to our own Milky Way, NGC 2683 is seen
nearly edge-on in
the
cosmic vista.
Blended light from a large population of old, yellowish stars forms
the remarkably bright galactic core.
Their starlight silhouettes the dust lanes along winding spiral arms, dotted
with NGC 2683's young blue star clusters.
The sharp image was recorded through the lens of a
refracting telescope
that shows brighter foreground Milky Way stars as colorful and round, lacking
diffraction spikes
characteristic of images from
reflecting
telescopes with internal supports.
The many more distant galaxies scattered through the background appear
as fuzzy, extended sources.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy
Publications with words: spiral galaxy
See also:
- APOD: 2025 September 4 Á NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
- APOD: 2025 August 22 Á A Tale of Two Nebulae
- APOD: 2025 August 19 Á Giant Galaxies in Pavo
- APOD: 2025 August 18 Á NGC 1309: A Useful Spiral Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 July 4 Á NGC 6946 and NGC 6939
- APOD: 2025 June 30 Á NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 June 19 Á NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble