Image:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
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- Description: 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
- Source: made by NASA, taken from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/10/image/a
- Author:
- 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
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- Spiral galaxy
- Pinwheel Galaxy
- Astrophysics Data System
- List of Messier objects
- Messier 102
- M101 Group
- User:SeanMack/sandbox/Good2
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures candidates/October-2006
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy
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| Width | 15852 |
|---|---|
| Height | 12392 |
| Compression scheme | 5 |
| Pixel composition | RGB |
| Orientation | Normal |
| Number of components | 3 |
| Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
| Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
| Data arrangement | chunky format |
| Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh |
| File change date and time | 13:44, 24 February 2006 |
| Color space | sRGB |
