M83 Spiral Galaxy by Hubble Skater SkirtI think that I shall never see A skirt as lovely as with a spiral galaxy! (With apologies to Joyce Kilmer) This spiral galaxy is M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel or the Thousand Ruby Galaxy, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. This composite image was made with over 20 hours of observations taken with six different filters from 2009 to 2012. The galaxy is approximately 15 million light years away in the constellation Hydra. Skirt is 82%