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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                   2022 June 23   
      
                              Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744   
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Basudeb Chakrabarti   
      
      Explanation: Beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000   
      light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30   
      million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but   
      appears as only a faint, extended object in small telescopes. We see   
      the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight   
      in this remarkably detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic view that   
      spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant   
      galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old,   
      cool stars. Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with young   
      blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions. An   
      extended arm sweeps past smaller satellite galaxy NGC 6744A at the   
      lower right. NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky   
      Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.   
      
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