If not perfect, then thi spiralgalaxy is at least one of the most photogenic.An island universe of about 100 billion stars,30 million light-years away toward th constellation Pisces,NGC 628 or M74 presents a gorgeou face-on viewto earthbound astronomers Classifiedas an Sc galaxy, the grand designof M74's graceful spiralarms traced by bright bluestar clusters and dar cosmic dust lanes,is similar in many respects to our own home galaxy, th Milky Way.Recorded with a 28 millio pixeldetector array, this impressiv image celebrated first light forthe Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph GMOS), a state-of-the-art instrumentoperational at the 8-mete Gemini North telescope.The Gemini North Observatory gazes into the skies abov Mauna Kea,Hawaii, USA, while its twin observatory Gemini South,operates fromCerro Pachn in central Chile.
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