The Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), nicknamed the Silver Dollar or Silver Coin Galaxy, is a brilliant dust-laced spiral about 11.4 million light-years away and one of the brightest galaxies in the sky after Andromeda. It is the closest and most famous "starburst" galaxy, a near-edge-on disk blazing with intense star formation that drives glowing outflows of gas above and below its plane.

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