---
title: "APOD: 3/15/13 – Triangulum Galaxy"
description: "[caption id=\"attachment_2331\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"630\"] Click to see a larger image (Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid)[/caption] Deep within the Triangulum Galaxy (also known as M33) is the stellar nursery NGC 604. These objects can be found within the constellation Triangulum, about 3-million light-years from Earth.   NGC 604 isn’t your regular..."
date: "2013-03-15"
modified: "2013-03-15"
authors:
  - name: "Joshua Filmer"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/joshuafqtq"
url: "https://futurism.com/apod-31513-triangulum-galaxy"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
---

# APOD: 3/15/13 – Triangulum Galaxy

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*Click to see a larger image (Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid)*

Deep within the Triangulum Galaxy (also known as M33) is the stellar nursery NGC 604. These objects can be found within the constellation Triangulum, about 3-million light-years from Earth.

NGC 604 isn’t your regular run-of-the-mill stellar nursery, it is utterly massive. This sprawling structure is so large that many scientists believe NGC 604 will eventually form enough stars to create a globular cluster. Globular clusters are dense clusters of stars (containing anywhere from tens of thousands of stars up to a couple million) tightly bound by gravity – usually in a spherical shape.

## Author
Joshua specializes in Mathematics and Physics at Portland State University.