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Image: Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View

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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View
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Description: This giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across, or nearly twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. About 100 billion of them could be similar to our Sun.
Original Resolution: 10240x1600
Copyright: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana), and STScI
Date added: 1 October 2012
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