File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
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| current | 01:44, 4 January 2017 | | 15,852 × 12,392 (62.13 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | the galaxy Messier 101 (M101, also known as NGC 5457 and also nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear), at a distance of about 21 million light-years from Earth. This is one of the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has been released from Hubble. The galaxy's portrait is actually composed of 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos. A high-res version with 15852 x 12392 pixels in jpg and tiff format is also available, see below for url. |
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- Astrophysics Data System
- Flocculent spiral galaxy
- Galaxy
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Hubble sequence
- List of Messier objects
- List of galaxies
- List of spiral galaxies
- M101 Group
- Messier 102
- Pinwheel Galaxy
- Portal:Star/Selected picture/4
- Spiral galaxy
- Infogalactic:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy
- Template:WikiProject Astronomy
- Category:Spiral galaxies
- Portal:Star/Selected picture/4
