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[edit]DescriptionMessier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy - Flickr - gjdonatiello.jpg |
Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy Credit: NOAO, RADEC, Giuseppe Donatiello RA 14h 03m 12.6s DEC+54° 20′ 57″ Messier 101 (NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy at 21 million light-years (6 Mpc) in Ursa Major discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781. M101, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years, is comparable in size with the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses. |
Date | Taken on 25 May 2021, 04:03 |
Source | Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy |
Author | Giuseppe Donatiello from Oria (Brindisi), Italy |
Flickr tags InfoField | messier 101 , m101 , ngc 5457 , pinwheel galaxy , night , sky , space , universe , local sheet |
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