Star Birth in M83

Today, the Hubble website released this stunning image of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, also know as the Southern Pinwheel. The photograph captures the rapid rate of star birth in the galaxy, seen as the reddish clusters of glowing hydrogen gas found along the dark center of the arm. Click through to enlarge.

From HubbleSite:

The spectacular new camera installed on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83.

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.

~ by metousiosis on November 5, 2009.

One Response to “Star Birth in M83”

  1. Nevertheless Jesus is talking about a transformation which is a result of the Spirit, being reborn from the inside out, as it were. Heaven Multiverse

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