M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy, NewLightObservatory

M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy

M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy, NewLightObservatory

M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy

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M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy)

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. On February 28, 2006, NASA and the ESA released a very detailed image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, which was the largest and most detailed image of a galaxy by Hubble Space Telescope at the time. The image was composed from 51 individual exposures, plus some extra ground-based photos.

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M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy, NewLightObservatory