File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg

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English: 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 25 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
Date

2006-02-28
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English: made by NASA, taken from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/10/image/a
Author
English:
    • Credit for Hubble Image: NASA and ESA
    • Acknowledgment: K.D. Kuntz (GSFC), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (JPL), J. Mould (NOAO), and Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana)
    • Credit for CFHT Image: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/ J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum
    • Credit for NOAO Image: G. Jacoby, B. Bohannan, M. Hanna/ NOAO/AURA/NSF
  • See also: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0602.html (direct link)
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. Hubble material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that NASA and ESA is credited as the source of the material. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute and for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre under Contract NAS5-26555. [1] or [2].
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current13:12, 22 July 2009Thumbnail for version as of 13:12, 22 July 200915,852×12,392 (62.13 MB)Tryphon (Talk | contribs) (Slightly better quality, from http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/large/heic0602a.jpg.)
21:44, 6 May 2009Thumbnail for version as of 21:44, 6 May 200915,852×12,392 (58.7 MB)Fabian RRRR (Talk | contribs) (full resolution)
21:13, 28 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 21:13, 28 February 20066,000×4,690 (9.48 MB)Gorgo (Talk | contribs) (*'''Description:''' the galaxy Messier 101 (M101). M101 (also nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear), at a distance of 25 million light-years from Earth. This is the largest and most de)

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