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High-resolution optical space telescope capture shows a barred spiral galaxy with luminous central bulge, tightly wound arms, and distinct dust lanes. Color mapping emphasizes hot stellar regions, cooler gas, and foreground stars against a sparse extragalactic background field.
Genre: Photorealistic
Image details
File type JPG
Size 3840×2160
Published 23:02
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Comments about Spiral galaxy core is rendered with dense stellar structure