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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2025 March 11   
          A spiral galaxy is shown in great detail. Visible are blue star   
       clusters, red nebulas, and brown dust in a spiral pattern around the   
       image and galaxy center. Please see the explanation for more detailed   
                                   information.   
      
                    NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble   
        Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A.   
      Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble),   
                              M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)   
      
      Explanation: Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even   
      our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar.   
      Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured   
      in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space   
      Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of   
      bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long   
      bright bar of stars across the center, and a bright active nucleus that   
      likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million   
      years to reach us from NGC 1672, which spans about 75,000 light years   
      across. NGC 1672, which appears toward the constellation of the   
      Dolphinfish (Dorado), has been studied to find out how a spiral bar   
      contributes to star formation in a galaxy's central regions.   
      
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