                    APOD: 2018 April 13 - Facing NGC 3344

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                                2018 April 13
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                               Facing NGC 3344
                Image Credit: ESA [3] / Hubble [4]  & NASA [5]

Explanation: From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy [6] , we see NGC
3344 face-on. Nearly 40,000 light-years across, the big, beautiful spiral
galaxy [7] is located just 20 million light-years away in the constellation of
Leo Minor. This multi-color Hubble Space Telescope close-up of NGC 3344 [8]
includes remarkable details from near infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths. The
frame extends some 15,000 light-years across the spiral's central regions.
From the core outward, the galaxy's colors change [9]  from the yellowish
light of old stars in the center to young blue star clusters and reddish star
forming regions along the loose, fragmented spiral arms. Of course, the bright
stars with a spiky appearance are in front of NGC 3344 and lie well within our
own Milky Way.

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