Their newly formed, bright, blue star clusters found along beautiful, symmetric spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too , like this lovely, gumdrop-shaped galaxy, Sextans A . A member of the local group of galaxies which includes the massive spirals Andromeda and our own Milky Way , Sextans A is about 10 million light years distant. The bright Milky Way foreground stars appear yellowish in this view. Beyond them lie the stars of Sextans A with tantalizing young blue clusters clearly visible.
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