Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) 🌌🔭 A spiral galaxy located 21 million light years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. This galaxy has about a trillion stars and it’s about 1.5 bigger than our Milkyway I captured this image from my Bortle 7 sky, last night, March 27th at 12:30 am Gear: 11” Celestron Edge HD and a @canonusa EOS R5, mounted on a Skywatcher EQ6R Pro EXIF: 100 minutes total integration, each image at 5 minutes exposure, 2700 mm, ISO 1000, F/11 #pinwheelgalaxy #M101 #space #telescope #s

NASA’s Stunning Pinwheel Galaxy Image: Hubble-Webb Join Forces To Capture Cosmic Spiral

A mere 15 million light-years away, the Southern Pinwheel galaxy is ablaze with star formation. A mosaic of Hubble Space Telescope images reveals dark spiral dust lanes lined with clusters of young stars lighting up pink clouds of hydrogen gas. Hundreds of thousands of bright blue stars shine where the gas has been cleared out by stellar winds. Older stars appear yellow or orange, because the young blue stars have already burned out. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

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