Astronomy Picture of the Day<p>APOD from 2025-05-26</p><p>Spiral <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galaxy</span></a> NGC 2566 from <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Webb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Webb</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/Infrared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Infrared</span></a> image of spiral galaxy NGC 2566 shows diffraction spikes from Webb <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telescope</span></a>, not real features. Its bright center likely hosts a quiet supermassive black hole. At 76 million light-years away, its star-forming clouds are visible, akin to the Milky Way in size and structure.</p><p>HD image at <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250526.html#space" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250526.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml#space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bot/tags/hubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hubble</span></a></p>