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English: The spiral galaxy Messier 81 is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favorable view provides a better picture of the typical architecture of spiral galaxies. Though the galaxy is 11.6 million light-years away, NASA Hubble Space Telescope's view is so sharp that it can resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas.
Français : La galaxie spirale M81. Cette galaxie est l'une des plus proche de nous (11,6 millions d'années lumière), et elle se présente de biais, d'où son aspect ovale. La structure de cette galaxie ressemble à celle de la voie lactée. Sa relative proximité fait que le télescope spatial Hubble est capable de distinguer en son sein des étoiles individuelles ainsi que des amas ouverts ou globulaires. |
| Date | Data acquired between 2004 and 2006; released 2007-05-28 |
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| Author | NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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| current | 18:02, 3 August 2009 | | 22,620 × 15,200 (74.13 MB) | Tryphon | Full resolution, from http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2007-19-a-full_jpg.jpg. |
| 13:59, 29 May 2007 |  | 3,000 × 2,016 (9.31 MB) | Winiar | {{Information |Description="The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the ga |
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