... 28.01.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), and W. P. Blair ( JHU ) et al. Explanation: M83 is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies on the sky. ... M83, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope in a recently released image, is a prominent member of a group of galaxies that includes Centaurus A and NGC 5253, all of which lie about 15 million light years distant. ... January 2014 . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy . ...