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Credit & Copyright: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope
Explanation:
The M100 galaxy is a large spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way,
containing over 100 billion stars. It is over 150 million
light years away, so
the light we see left when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The picture was
taken in 1993 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the
Hubble Space Telescope.
For more information see NASA Space Telescope Scientific Institute press release.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: M 100 - spiral galaxy
Publications with words: M 100 - spiral galaxy
See also:
- APOD: 2025 September 4 Á NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
- APOD: 2025 August 22 Á A Tale of Two Nebulae
- APOD: 2025 August 19 Á Giant Galaxies in Pavo
- APOD: 2025 August 18 Á NGC 1309: A Useful Spiral Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 July 4 Á NGC 6946 and NGC 6939
- APOD: 2025 June 30 Á NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 June 19 Á NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble