Pinwheel Galaxy (March 27th 2023) Mobile Wallpaper

This the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), captured from my telescope and a Bortle 7 sky.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy has about a trillion stars and it’s about 1.5 bigger than our Milky Way!

Image time/date: March 27th 2023 at 12:30 AM. 

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