Astronomers call Messier 63 the Sunflower Galaxy , because they say its voluted shape resemble the spiral of seed at the center of a sunflower .
Well , sort of .
In this image from the Hubble Space Telescope , the Sunflower Galaxy also resemble the eddy arms of a hurricane , but on a galactic scale .
Each of those detail of light in the galaxy ’s turbinate arms is a star or bunch of stars , newly formed and blazing blue - blank . The Sunflower Galaxy is 27 million light years off in the M51 Group , a group of Galax urceolata dominated by Messier 51 , the Whirlpool Galaxy .
[ NASA Image of the Day ]
Image credits : Clay Junell via Wikimedia Commons , NASA via Wikimedia Commons
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