This picture shows M83 Star Streams. It is the spiral galaxy M83. It is 12 million light years away and is located near the SE tip of the constellation Hydra. It is 40,000 light years across. The galaxy also goes by the Southern Pinwheel because of it's spiral arms, and the Thousand-Ruby Galaxy because of the reddish star forming regions towards the outside of the galaxy. The stellar tidal stream, located toward the top of the galaxy, is debris from the gravitational disruption of a smaller, merging satellite galaxy. This stream was discovered in the 1990's. I picked this picture because the colors of the galaxy and surrounding stars interested me and I wanted to learn more about the galaxy.
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