Image: Ngc.galaxy.arp.750pix

Description: Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 displays numerous spiral arms filled with bright stars, blue star clusters, and dark dust lanes. It spans about 30000 light-years, lies about 60 million light-years from Earth and can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Ursa Major.
Title: Ngc.galaxy.arp.750pix
Credit: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031103.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0311a/ (direct link)
Author: Stephen Smartt (U. Cambridge), HST, ESA, NASA European Space Agency and Stephen Smartt (University of Cambridge)
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