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Credit & Copyright: W. Keel
(University of Alabama)
Explanation:
Messier 65
(M65)
is a bright spiral galaxy of stars only
35 million light-years away in
the constellation Leo.
With very tightly wound
spiral arms,
a large central bulge, and well defined dust lanes,
this galaxy is a member of a group of galaxies known as
the Leo triplet.
The faint blue smudges along the spiral arms
of M65 are large clusters
of bright, newly formed stars within the distant galaxy while
the bright individual stars are foreground objects
in our own
Milky Way galaxy.
North is to the left in
this composite of digital pictures
taken using the large
4-meter (diameter) Mayall telescope
at Kitt Peak National Observatory
in the southwestern United States.
The horizontal stripes are digital blemishes ...
but the image has been adjusted to remove the blotch created by
a moth which worked its way into
the camera's filter wheel.
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