The Beauty of a Grain of a Sand on the Cosmic Beach

I know I just posted a really beautiful image of a spiral galaxy by Adam Block recently, but right after that he sent me another photo that got me thinking, and I figure that's worth sharing. Also, who doesn't want to start a new year with a gorgeous galaxy photo? And yeah, click that picture to get the whole high-res shot, because this is only a piece of it shrunk to fit the blog. That is NGC 1169, which is actually quite similar to the galaxy I posted last week. It's a barred spiral with an in...