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The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
(M83) is the second-brightest
member of the Centaurus A
Group. At a distance of some 15
million light-years, it lies some
3 million light-years beyond
the group’s brightest member,
Centaurus A. NASA/ESA/THE HUBBLE
HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA)