Messier 83, The Southern Pinwheel, Barred Spiral Galaxy in the constellation Hydra.

 

Messier 83 NGC 5236. Coast Robotic Telescope, Mount Teide, Tenerife. Data Credit:: Open Observatories, telescope .org, Open University. Image Credit Pip Stakkert.

"Sadly, this magnificent face on barred galaxy is too low and below our southern horizon in Lowestoft. The COAST telescope being located at high altitude and at a much lower northern latitude can however image it and here at the JPO, Pip Stakkert had fun processing the data

The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, at a distance of 15 million light years is one of the brightest and closest barred galaxies to the Milky Way. 

There is plenty of star birth going on in the galaxy's spiral arms and there have been supernova recorded in this galaxy in recent times.

The above image shows a face on view of a galaxy that measures 118,000 light years across". - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.