Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5477  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
M 101 - HaLRGB, James E.
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M 101 - HaLRGB

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M 101 - HaLRGB

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M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a grand design spiral about 170,000 light years in diameter and is located about 23 million miles from the Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. Visible are blue colors of hotter, young stars mixed with obscuring dust lanes and pinkish star forming regions. It has a companion dwarf galaxy, NGC 5474, which is not shown in this cropped image.

Credit: APOD March 15, 2019

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M 101 - HaLRGB, James E.

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