M38 - Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

t is located on the border of the constellations Hydra and Centaurus. It cannot be seen north of 42degrees, so no hope of seeing this from the UK.
Data is from Telescope.live telescopes based in Chile.
The galaxy is approximately 15 million light years away (1 LY = 5,878,625,370,000 miles) - it is BIG. It's one of the brightest barred spiral galaxies visible to Earth, and can be seen through binoculars.
The newest generations of stars in M83 are forming largely in clusters on the edges of the dark, spiraling dust lanes. These brilliant, young stellar groupings are only a few million years old and produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light. That light is absorbed by the surrounding diffuse gas clouds, causing them to glow in pinkish hydrogen light.
Scientific calculations (waaaaay over my head) have aged the galaxy at approximately 13.2 billion years old, and believe it contains close to 40 billion stars.