Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)
GALAXY · the grand wheel
A magnificent face on spiral, nearly twice as wide as our Milky Way, turning in the handle of the Big Dipper. Its arms are studded with giant pink star forming regions, so many that astronomers have cataloged thousands. Slightly lopsided arms betray the gravitational nudges of its small companion galaxies.
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