PIX4612441: Spiral Galaxy M83 in Hydra - Spiral galaxy M83 in Hydra - The galaxy M83 (NGC 5236) is located about 15 million years away from Earth. This galaxy is intermediate between a classical spiral and a barree spiral Image obtained by the ANTU telescope of the VLT in Chile in March 1999. M83 (NGC 5236) is located in the southern constellation Hydra at 15 million light years from the sun. It is classified as intermediate between normal and barred spiral galaxies. Image obtained with ANTU telescope (VLT) in March 1999 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4612481: Spiral Galaxy M83 in Hydra - Spiral galaxy M83 in Hydra - The galaxy M83 (NGC 5236) is located about 15 million years away from Earth. This galaxy is intermediate between a classic spiral and a barree spiral. Image obtained from the 3.9m telescope of Siding Spring, Australia. M83 is thought to be very like our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, but seen from above one of its poles and at a distance of about 15 million light years. Composed of billions of stars and huge clouds of dust and gas, this object is one of the finest examples of a spiral galaxy and shows a concentration of older, yellow stars in its central nucleus with younger, blue stars and patchy red clouds of glowing gas and dark dust lanes in the trailing spiral arms. The massive blue stars occasionally explode as supernovae; at least eight have been seen in Messier 83 in the last 70 years / Bridgeman Images
PIX4612509: Spiral Galaxy M83 in Hydra - Spiral galaxy M83 in Hydra - The galaxy M83 (NGC 5236) is located about 15 million years away from Earth. This galaxy is intermediate between a classic spiral and a barree spiral. M83 (NGC 5236) is located in the southern constellation Hydra at 15 million light years from the sun. It is classified as intermediate between normal and barred spiral galaxies / Bridgeman Images
PIX4578961: Full Moon rise in summer - Full Moon rise in summer - The heat mist that borders the horizon at the end of the summer day contributes to make the moon rise particularly spectacular by blushing its face. At the ground level, the turbulence of the atmosphere flattenes and becomes the lunar globe. July 2005. Full Moon is rising with a reddish face due to warm atmosphere. July 200 / Bridgeman Images