View Of The Spiral Nebula Messier-81
by Bettmann
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View Of The Spiral Nebula Messier-81
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Bettmann
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Photograph - Photography
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(Original Caption) Spiral nebula Messier-81, located near the Big Dipper in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear), is pictured as she looked through the new 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain. It's distance, as determined by astronomer Allan R. Sandage of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatory, is about 7,000 light years. The distance is four times as great as that obtained for it in 1936. M-81 is a vast aggregation of stars whirling in space and resembles our own galaxy, the Milky Way, in form and structure. In earthly units of distance, M-81 is about 42 quintillion miles from us.
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May 12th, 2020
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