Space.com provides a new shot of<a href=http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=perfect_spiral_02.jpg&cap=This%20%20first%20light%20%20image%20from%20the%20Gemini%20North%20Telescope%20on%20Hawaii's%20Mauna%20Kea%20shows%20a%20large%20galaxy%20in%20Pisces%20called%20NGC%20628%20(or%20Messier%2074).%20It%20has%20been%20called%20the%20%20Perfect%20Spiral%20Galaxy%20%20due%20to%20its%20nearly%20ideal%20form,%20which%20is%20clearly%20revealed%20in%20this%20new%20image.>M74 taken by the new telescope at Mauna Kea.
Wish MSNBC was still there--I'd like to post this shot and tell Smyth it's the Milky Way... ;)
Thank God for HTML. How'd you like to cut-and-paste this address?
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=perfect_spiral_02.jpg&cap=This%20%20first%20light%20%20image%20from%20the%20Gemini%20North%20Telescope%20on%20Hawaii's%20Mauna%20Kea%20shows%20a%20large%20galaxy%20in%20Pisces%20called%20NGC%20628%20(or%20Messier%2074).%20It%20has%20been%20called%20the%20%20Perfect%20Spiral%20Galaxy%20%20due%20to%20its%20nearly%20ideal%20form,%20which%20is%20clearly%20revealed%20in%20this%20new%20image.
Really nice spiral galaxy picture...