M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major

Hubble Legacy Archive (20 Frame Mosaic), Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Amateur Data

Processing by Robert Gendler

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1300 X 1113

 

2400 X 2054

 

4000 X 3423

 

Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).

Some H-alpha data and small "fill in" areas were obtained from older ground based data taken in 2007.

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