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                                    2025 May 29   
      
                         Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A   
           Image Credit & Copyright: Franz Hofmann, Gemsbock Observatory   
      
      Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the attention,   
      flaunting young, bright, blue star clusters and pinkish star forming   
      regions along graceful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form   
      stars too, like irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A. Its young star   
      clusters and star forming regions are gathered into a gumdrop-shaped   
      region a mere 5,000 light-years across. Seen toward the navigational   
      constellation Sextans, the small galaxy lies some 4.5 million   
      light-years distant. That puts it near the outskirts of the local group   
      of galaxies, that includes the large, massive spirals Andromeda and our   
      own Milky Way. Brighter Milky Way foreground stars appear spiky and   
      yellowish in this colorful telescopic view of Sextans A.   
      
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