Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Jul 16 🔭 NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260716
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This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really look like this? Here is a more standard portrait of it. This unusual image combines the light from the stars and dust within