Galaxy M83 Star Birth Outer Space Image

by Bill Swartwout

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Galaxy M83 Star Birth Outer Space Image

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Bill Swartwout

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Photograph - Fine Art Photography

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Outer space imagery and deep space photography can yield fascinating and beautiful photographs such as this wide-field Hubble Space Telescope view of Galaxy M-83, the Spiral Galaxy in the Southern Hemisphere.

Here is a part of the NASA caption for the original image: "Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp "eye" of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants.

The image, taken in August 2009, provides a close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy's core, the bright whitish region at far right.

WFC3's broad wavelength range, from ultraviolet to near-infrared, reveals stars at different stages of evolution, allowing astronomers to dissect the galaxy's star-formation history.

The image reveals in unprecedented detail the current rapid rate of star birth in this famous "grand design" spiral galaxy. The newest generations of stars are forming largely in clusters on the edges of the dark dust lanes, the backbone of the spiral arms. These fledgling stars, only a few million years old, are bursting out of their dusty cocoons and producing bubbles of reddish glowing hydrogen gas."

This public domain image (courtesy of our tax dollars at work) has been digitally optimized to display perfectly as home or office decor on a variety of surfaces. The acrylic or metal prints would certainly bring out the colors and the stars.

Original Hubble image credit: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), the WFC3 Science Oversight Committee and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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September 15th, 2018

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