2024 April 25 - NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery

In today's image, we see a large star forming region in the galaxy M33: The Triangulum Galaxy. This is one of the spiral galaxies in our own Local Group of galaxies. The star forming region is one of the larger known in the Local Group, the largest being he Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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