Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy 2

Pinwheel Galaxy 2

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Original – The Pinwheel Galaxy, M101, is approximately 21 million light years from Earth. According to the caption, "The galaxy's portrait is actually composed of 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos."

Reason

Highly detailed image of a noted astronomical object, 15,852 × 12,392 pixels in size. Previous nomination is at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy which referred to a previous version of this image.

Articles in which this image appears

Pinwheel Galaxy, Hubble sequence, Galaxy, Spiral galaxy, and others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA and ESA

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 04:35, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Awe inspiring. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:51, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
• Weak support - one corner is sharp but the other three are not (is that normal!) Bammesk (talk) 20:32, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support - it is a stitching of 51 images, some from Hubble and some from ground, huge resolution. Bammesk (talk) 22:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Gorgeous. chsh (talk) 16:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support as a fan of it. -The Herald • ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 18:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Yann (talk) 16:34, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:59, 12 May 2015 (UTC)