Like a portal to another dimension, a hypnotizing swirl features This is the spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, located approximately 15 million light-years away. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky, but this image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), doesn’t show how M83 looks in the…
Source: ALMA · Original release
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