Image: Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 06:30
in Astronomy & Space
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower. So the nickname for this cosmic object—the Sunflower Galaxy—is no coincidence.