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Pastimes : Favorite Pictures From Outer Space
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From: N. Dixon5/3/2019 9:46:39 PM
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Next time you glance up at the constellation Leo draped across the night sky, think about how there's so much more going on there than the few twinkly stars we can see with the naked eye.

NASA and the European Space Agency shared a Hubble Space Telescope image this week of galaxy NGC 2903. It's a poster child of a spiral galaxy that's located in Leo the lion. Look at its graceful curving arms and glowing center. It's the Idris Elba of galaxies. I would pay good money to see NGC 2903: The Movie.

ESA is also in love with spiral galaxies, waxing poetic on their features: "These limelight-hogging celestial objects combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark, weaving lanes of cosmic dust, creating truly awesome scenes."
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