This weeks picture of M106, a very beautiful galaxy in the spring sky. This particular galaxy is very similar to ours and M31, The Andromeda Galaxy. Being 21 million light years away and 30000 light years across, M106 exhibits 2 prominent spiral arms rotating in the clockwise direction. We can also see some stellar nurseries in the reddish clouds in the arms with some prominent blue stars. This picture is actually a large number of images from the Hubble telescope put together, and really signifies just how much the Hubble telescope has contributed to our understanding of the universe.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120503.html
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