 Astronomers have previously noted that the Milky Way sits in a large, flat array of galaxies called the local sheet. This sheet of galaxies bounds a void called the local void. The void's size is not known, but it is at least 150 million light-years wide and 230 million light-years long. Its center is approximately 75 million light-years from us. All has taken a beautiful picture of NGC 6503, a lonely galaxy on the edge of this void. It spans some 30,000 light-years. In this image, bright red patches of gas can be seen scattered through its swirling spiral arms mixed with bright blue regions that contain newly forming stars with dark brown dust lanes snaking across the galaxy's bright arms and center.