Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy [7] approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra …

Oct 24, 2024 · A photogenic and favorite target for amateur astronomers, the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, is unveiled in all of its glory in this …

Jan 9, 2014 · A citizen-science project entitled Star Date: M83 also enlisted the aid of the general public in analyzing the ages of the galaxy's star clusters. Volunteers inspected Hubble images …

Aug 23, 2014 · Messier 83 stretches across an area of over 40,000 light years, which is roughly 40 percent the size of the Milky Way Galaxy. This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of …

Messier 83 (M83), affectionately known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is a remarkable barred spiral galaxy situated in the Hydra constellation. As one of the closest barred spiral galaxies to …

About 40,000 light-years across, M83 is known as the Southern Pinwheel for its pronounced spiral arms. But the wealth of reddish star forming regions found near the edges of the arms' thick …

Jan 8, 2024 · An international team of astronomers has revealed mysterious star formation at the far edge of the galaxy M83. This research was presented today in a press conference at the …

Jan 9, 2014 · It shows the galaxy in full, with dark dust lanes, fiery red patches of gas, and bright blue patches of recent star formation speckled across the spiralling arms. Although it looks …

The newest generations of stars in M83 are forming largely in clusters, the pinkish clumps, on the edges of the dark, spiraling dust lanes. These brilliant, young stellar groupings are only a few …

Jan 17, 2014 · Arcing near the top of the novel cosmic portrait lies M83's northern stellar tidal stream, debris from the gravitational disruption of a smaller, merging satellite galaxy. The faint, …