File:NGC 3982 - Hubble space telescope, 2003.jpg

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Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 displays numerous spiral arms filled with bright stars, blue star clusters, and dark dust lanes. It spans about 30000 light-years, lies about 60 million light-years from Earth and can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Ursa Major.

Date

24 September 2003

Source

Author

Stephen Smartt (U. Cambridge), HST, ESA, NASA
European Space Agency and Stephen Smartt (University of Cambridge)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:23, 21 July 2019	1,083 × 992 (616 KB)	BevinKacon	Reverted to version as of 08:08, 10 July 2009 (UTC) actual size from original source
	19:27, 9 November 2018	2,048 × 1,536 (1,017 KB)	The Herald	higher res
	08:08, 10 July 2009	1,083 × 992 (616 KB)	Tryphon	Original size.
	19:37, 20 June 2005	750 × 687 (67 KB)	Wricardoh~commonswiki	From en: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ngc.galaxy.arp.750pix.jpg] Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 displays numerous spiral arms filled with bright stars, blue star clusters, and dark dust lanes. It spans about 30,000 light years, lies about 60 million light