NGC 3293 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Framed Canvas Its spiral arms appear distorted

Its spiral arms appear distorted and displaced above the main plane of the galaxy

It is the remnant of a supernova explosion at a distance of about 6

formed of stars

unlike several other planets in our solar system

and astronomical history is littered with now-obsolete phrases to describe objects in the night sky

NGC 3293 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Framed Canvas Its spiral arms appear distortedIn this image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at ESOs La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. The star cluster, known as NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million years ago, but as stars began to form it became the bright group we see here. Clusters like this are celestial laboratories that allow