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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 December 28   
      
                                    Messier 88   
      Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona   
      
      Explanation: Charles Messier described the 88th entry in his 18th   
      century catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters as a spiral nebula without   
      stars. Of course the gorgeous M88 is now understood to be a galaxy full   
      of stars, gas, and dust, not unlike our own Milky Way. In fact, M88 is   
      one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster some 50   
      million light-years away. M88's beautiful spiral arms are easy to trace   
      in this sharp cosmic portait. The arms are lined with young blue star   
      clusters, pink star-forming regions, and obscuring dust lanes extending   
      from a yellowish core dominated by an older population of stars. Spiral   
      galaxy M88 spans over 100,000 light-years.   
      
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