Southern Pinwheel Galaxy: A stunning face-on view of this huge galaxy, about 12 to15 million light years distant. It has all the features of a relatively young spiral galaxy: Star forming regions can be observed as blue and pink knots in the spiral arms. Also the huge dust bands indicate that there is a lot of genesis going on in this star island. Milky Way would probably look quite similar from a distance of millions of light years.
Also  notice the two galaxies to the lower left, which are much more distant.

For an image witha 20" telescope click  here.