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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:
- Webb and Hubble: IC 5332
- APOD: 2026 February 4 Á Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field
- Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb
- APOD: 2026 January 14 Á M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
- IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis
- NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe
- APOD: 2025 November 5 Á Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble