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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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                                  2024 November 1   
      
                              Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: John Hayes   
      
      Explanation: Big, 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 smudge in the eyepiece of a small telescope. We   
      see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of   
      sight in this remarkably deep and detailed galaxy portrait, a   
      telescopic image 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 upper left. NGC 6744's galactic companion is   
      reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic   
      Cloud.   
      
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