📍 M33
➡️ 2.7 million light-years
🏠 Triangulum constellation
This newly released view shows part of M33, one of our Milky Way Galaxy’s largest neighbors. Reddish clouds of ionized hydrogen are seen interspersed with dark lanes of dust.
M33 is a star-forming powerhouse. In fact, the apparent graininess of the image is actually swarms of countless stars!
At about half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Boyer (STScI), and J. Dalcanton (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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