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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 June 13   
      
                                Messier 66 Close Up   
         Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble   
                                  Collaboration.   
               Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin and Robert Gendler   
      
      Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35   
      million light-years away. The gorgeous island universe is about 100   
      thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This   
      Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about 30,000   
      light-years wide around the galactic core. It shows the galaxy's disk   
      dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Surrounding its bright   
      core, the likely home of a supermassive black hole, obscuring dust   
      lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with   
      the tell-tale glow of pinkish star forming regions. Messier 66, also   
      known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the   
      gravitationally interacting Leo Triplet.   
      
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