Login
User
Password
reset password
Currently showing all non-adult images
Click to set preferences
Choose your preferred image resolution: Original Show original sizes
15360x4320 (7680x2160x2)
7680x2160 (3840x2160x2)
5120x1440 (2560x1440x2)
3840x1200 (1920x1200x2)
3840x1080 (1920x1080x2)
3360x1050 (1680x1050x2)
3200x900 (1600x900x2)
3072x864 (1536x864x2)
2880x900 (1440x900x2)
2732x768 (1366x768x2)
2560x1024 (1280x1024x2)
Or enter a resolution: (max: 15360x4320)
x
Other options: (What is this?)
(What is this?)

Close

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

by Astronomy
Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View
Separate images:
Left | Right

Details

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.
Resolution: 5120x1600
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: 28 September 2012
Instructions: How to make backgrounds span across screens

Rating

Rating 5.0 (2 votes)

Comments