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                              2023 November 22
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                   IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Steve Cannistra

   Explanation: [5]Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our
   neighborhood, [6]IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years [7]distant in
   the long-necked, northern constellation [8]Camelopardalis. A sprawling
   [9]island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our
   night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through
   the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own
   [10]Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened
   by intervening [11]cosmic clouds, this [12]sharp telescopic image
   traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and
   glowing star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from
   [13]the galaxy's core. IC 342 has undergone a recent burst of [14]star
   formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally
   influenced the evolution of the [15]local group of galaxies and the
   Milky Way.

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