Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83), composite image. The yellow centre indicates older stars, the blue areas in the spiral arms are hot, young stars. This

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Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83), composite image. The yellow centre indicates older stars, the blue areas in the spiral arms are hot, young stars. This spiral galaxy is million light years from Earth, in the constellation of Hydra. This image combines data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

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Photo credit: © Hubble Legacy Archive/NAOJ/ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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