Pinwheel Galaxy
face-on spiral
20.9 million light-years from Earth
Nearly twice the width of the Milky Way, seen almost face-on, its lopsided arms studded with more than 3,000 star-forming regions.
- 20.9 million light-years · 170,000 light-years across
- kind
- galaxy
- catalogue
- M101 · NGC 5457
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