The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, is a face-on spiral galaxy approximately 22 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
This is a composite image of the spiral galaxy M101 combining views from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The red colors indicate infrared light, yellow is visible, and blue is X-ray. In many ways it is similar to own Milky Way galaxy but larger. The visible light captured by Hubble shows off the swirls of bright stars and glowing gas that give the galaxy its nickname the Pinwheel Galaxy. In contrast, the infrared-light image from the Spitzer telescope sees deeper into the spiral arms to reveal the glow of dust lanes where dense clouds can collapse to form new stars. Chandra's X-ray picture uncovers high-energy features of the galaxy, like remnants of exploded stars or matter zooming around black holes. The overlap of observations from these three telescopes provides an in-depth view of the galaxy.
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Object Name: M101, NGC 4547, The Pinwheel Galaxy
Release Date: Feb 10, 2009
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI
The images available at Posternauts.com have been curated from the thousands of photographs taken and collected by NASA/JPL, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other space agencies. We are able to offer these images to you in print form because they are available in the public domain. If you are interested in viewing even more images and exploring the science and discoveries they represent, you will enjoy visiting the following web pages for more.
HubbleSite - News, Images and more from the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Space Mission and Science news, Videos, and Images
SpaceX - Exciting images of launches, vehicles, and more.
European Space Agency - Dedicated to the exploration of Space since 1975
European Southern Observatory - Home of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile.
James Webb Space Telescope - Follow the progress of this project still in development
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