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Back Pinwheel Galaxy close-up 6

Pinwheel Galaxy close-up 6


Date: 27 February 2006
Satellite: Hubble
Depicts: Background galaxies to Messier 101
Copyright: ESA/NASA

Two distant galaxies behind Messier 101 and a collection of individual foreground stars from one of its spiral arms.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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