Pinwheel Galaxy - M101 Size:10x10

Pinwheel Galaxy - M101 Size:10x10M101 lies 21 million light years distant from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. This giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light years across, almost twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. Also know as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. This galaxy portrait is actually composed of 51 individual exposures taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary

Bressert (ESO)

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Cuillandre/Coelum

is a face-on spiral galaxy approximately 22 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major

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000 stars of different sizes appear in this image

This giant spiral disk of stars

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