This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,
This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Spiral galaxy M83, infrared image. M83 (Messier 83), or the Southern Pinwheel, is similar in shape to our own Milky Way galaxy but about half the size. It lies 15 million light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra and spans over 40,000 light years. Imaged by the HAWK-I instrument on ESOâs Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory, :
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