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M101 Galaxy



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Taras Rabarskyi

M101 Galaxy

M101 galaxy - 21 million light years away, - it is a large galaxy comparable in size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.
Picture taken with a total of about 40 min exposure with Canon T2i camera and 8" Meade SCT telescope.






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