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This is a nearby spiral galaxy 6 million light-years away in Sculptor - blue spiral arms hanging behind foreground stars of the Milky Way. It has quite a low surface brightness, the pale light is spread across more than half the apparent diameter of the Moon in the sky. It has a small stellar nucleus, and numerous clusters and nebulae form brighter patches within it. To its left are three much more distant galaxy clusters. The distant cluster at the 10 o'clock position is actually a pair of colliding galaxy clusters!
All images copyright Andy Casely 2017