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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2023 November 22   
      
                      IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cannistra   
      
      Explanation: Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our   
      neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the   
      long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island   
      universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night   
      sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the   
      veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way   
      galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by   
      intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the   
      galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing star   
      forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core.   
      IC 342 has undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is   
      close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the   
      local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.   
      
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