2025 April 07 - NGC 4414: A Flocculant Spiral Galaxy

In today's image, we see an example of a flocculant spiral galaxy, which is a galaxy without distinct spiral arms.

Note: In the audio, the image is incorrectly 9identified as the April 1 image, that is incorrect and this is the image for April 7.

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