Hubble Sees a Galactic Sunflower

By: vivian on sexta-feira, setembro 11, 2015

The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.

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