Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. But if you look closely at the center of the above photograph , you will see a whole spiral galaxy behind the field of stars. In fact, all the individually discernible stars in the above photograph are in our Galaxy . Dwingeloo 1 turned out to be a large galaxy located only five times as distant as the closest major galaxy - M31 .
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