Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5471
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Cloudy Pinwheel, James Plotz
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The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away from earth.  M101 is asymmetrical due to the tidal forces from interactions with its companion galaxies. These gravitational interactions compress interstellar hydrogen gas, which then triggers strong star formation activity in M101's spiral arms that can be detected in ultraviolet images.

I continue to be a fan of face-on galaxies. I Shot this over two nights in my backyard in SE WI.   Standard processing used including the EZ suite for deconvolutin.   It was kinda neat to compare this version to a version i did a year or so ago just to see how much better i'm getting in processing.   Long way to go.... but it was progress.

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