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,

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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. Optical image of the spiral galaxy Messier 83 (NGC 5236). M83 is very similar in size and shape to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. M83 is 15 million light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra. This image was made with the Very Large Telescope 'Antu' at the Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

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Keywords: 5236, antu, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmic, cosmology, galactic, galaxy, imagery, large, m83, messier, ngc, object, science, space, spiral, telescope, universe, ut1, vlt