Recently I was looking at the APOD titled "M100: The Grand Design Spiral Galaxy". When you think of a galaxy what is the first picture that comes to mind? For me it would be a spiral galaxy just like this one shown. This Galaxy is one of the brightest Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space telescope in 2009 and it reveals clusters of blue stars and swirling dust lanes which are used to classify this as a spiral galaxy.
When I think of a galaxy I think of the milky way
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