M83 = NGC5236 ( 13h 37.0m -29°52´, 8.0 mag. )
This large barred spiral galaxy on Hydra / Centaurus border was found by Lacaille in 1752. Messier observed it on Feb. 17, 1781. Messier observed it on Feb. 17, 1781.
M83 resides 15 million light years away from the Earth in the constellation of Hydra and spans 40,000 light years.
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This is M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. It earned its name from the distinct pinwheel shape of its long spiral arms.
M83 (spiral galaxy)
Hydra, also called the serpent of Lerna, was a beast with the body of a hound and 100 serpentine heads.
Hyperactive stellar nurseries glow bright red in this recent Hubble Space Telescope view of the spiral galaxy M83. The nurseries are giving birth to hundreds of new stars.
This galaxy, whose catalog name is M83, is a swarm of about a hundred billion stars"more stars than the number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
Hydra has three Messier objects: M48, M68, and M83. M48 (NGC 2548). Messier actually gave the wrong location for this star cluster, putting it four degrees north of the current position. But by his description this seems to be the right object.
M48 (open cluster)
M68 (globular cluster)
M83 (spiral galaxy)
Check out the Hydra Region page which is part of the Texas Astronomical Society's Constellation of the Month Series.
An infrared image of the spiral galaxy M83 (European Southern Observatory) showing the infrared glow of stars in the spiral arms.
Open star clusters NGC 5460, NGC 3766, NGC 5316, NGC 5617
Spiral Galaxy M83
Elliptical galaxy NGC 4945
Peculiar Galaxy NGC 5128 containing the radio source Centaurus A
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The collection of images includes several galaxies and star clusters other than Andromeda, such as M2, NGC 7331, NGC 300, NGC 55, NGC 247, M83, NGC 5962, NGC 5474, and NGC 5398.
However, the group is very dynamic and membership of the Group is probably changing over time as galaxies interact with, and move between, other nearby groups such as the Maffei 1 Group, the Sculptor Group, and the M81 and M83 Groups.
 See also: Galaxy, Spiral Galaxy, Hydra, Sky, Star
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