Very cool. Now, is it just me or do we see a considerable amount of ejection activity on the right side at the tip of the spiral arm?
Specifically above the tip of the right spiral arm there's a green puff of nebulous gas (I'm assuming)... Between that and the tip of the spiral there is a large yellow-looking (in this picture) star, below that, and closer to the tip of the arm are two very similarly sized and colored stars, which appear to be binary, and are directly in line with the puff of gree gas and the other star.
Specifically up and to the left of that appears to be a region of particular activity too with a number of stars in string-of-pearls configurations (several stars in a relatively straight line bunched together, obviously associated with the rest of the galaxy). That's pretty cool. :) Though most astronomers seem to dismiss many (but not all) string-of-pearls configurations as "random alignments." While I can see 2-3 "random" star alignments, when there's a fairly sizeable string of them all in a row (or close to it), it's a bit harder to dismiss.
Anyway, not implying anything particular, I just think it's cool. And beautiful!
~Michael
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