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Fuzzy Pinwheel [1]

M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, whirls through space like a big fuzzy pinwheel. Stellar nurseries (reddish blobs) line the galaxy's spiral arms, while lanes of dark dust block the light of many stars. The galaxy is about three million light-years away, in the constellation Triangulum, which is well up in the east as darkness falls on November nights. [Alexander Meleg/Wikipedia]

Triangulum
M33, the Triangulum Galaxy
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