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Tips and Walkthrough: Candy Crush Level 5332

This glittering galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away. Called IC 5332, its "face-on" orientation to Earth gives us a stunning view of its sparkling, loosely wound spiral arms. Spiral galaxies are disks of stars, gas, and dust that have bright bulges in their centers made up primarily of older and dimmer stars. Their whirled arms are typically full of gas and dust, which helps give rise to the bright, younger stars visible throughout their length. These galaxies are actively forming stars

The spiral arms of galaxy IC 5332, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee, and the PHANGS-HST team. | The Nature