Messier 83

Credit: 2MASS; Infrared Processing and Analysis Center; Caltech; University of Massachusettes · Download full size image

Atlas Image mosaic, covering 10.0´ × 10.0´ on the sky, of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 83 (NGC 5236). This bright southern galaxy is seen nearly face-on and is one of the nearest large barred galaxies to the Milky Way. The bulge region of this galaxy is experiencing an intense starburst; the structure of this burst of circumnuclear star formation at high spatial resolution in the near-infrared, and other wavelengths, is complex. 1999 Sep 22-28 Posted on: 31 Mar, 2003

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