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Original – The Pinwheel Galaxy, M101, is approximately 21 million light years from Earth. According to the caption, "The galaxy's portrait is actually composed of 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos."
Reason
Highly detailed image of a noted astronomical object, 15,852 × 12,392 pixels in size. Previous nomination is at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy which referred to a previous version of this image.
Articles in which this image appears
Pinwheel Galaxy, Hubble sequence, Galaxy, Spiral galaxy, and others
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
NASA and ESA

Promoted File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 04:59, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]