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Most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever...

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Giant galaxies weren't assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (the Pinwheel Galaxy). The image is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever released from Hubble. The galaxy's portrait is actually composed from 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos. The final composite image measures a whopping 16,000 by 12,000 pixels.

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http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/28pinwheel/

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