NASA photo of the day of a galaxy in the heart of a giraffe!

According to RCO News Agency, NASA wrote in the description of this photo: Galaxy IC 342 is similar in size to our neighboring large and bright spiral galaxies and is only 10 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. This galaxy is a vast “island universe” that would otherwise be a significant galaxy in our night sky, but is hidden from plain view, visible only through a veil of stars, gas, and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy.

Although IC 342’s light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds, this very sharp telescopic image shows young star clusters and bright regions of star formation along the spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core.

IC 342 has recently undergone a burst of star-forming activity and is close enough to us that it could have influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way itself.

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