In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as NGC 6744. This is a spiral galaxy, larger than our own Milky Way, but still showing the distinctive characteristics of a spiral galaxy such as star formation in the spiral arms with blue star clusters and red hydrogen regions.

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