The APOD for this week that I chose is titled M83 Star Streams. To be honest, I chose it because I know it is the title of an indie-pop band and I never realized it was named after an M object. I think this galaxy is very interesting looking and according to the entry it lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. The M83 Star Streams pictures were gathered by the Hubble Telescope and date from a european telescope from the European Southern Observatory. I learned that M83's northern stellar tidal stream is actually debris from the gravitational disruption of a smaller, merging satellite galaxy.
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