Wallpaper author:
Marcin Cikała
27 Nov 2025
M 83 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
M83 is a massive, grand design bared spiral galaxy. Has been discovered on 17 February 1752 at the Cape of Good Hope by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. There is a lot of star formation regions observed in the galaxy.
Image is composition of all available images. I use CHI1 CCD frames as a reference ones.
Dataset from which the image was processed
M83
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