M 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Framed Canvas dust and hot young stars

dust and hot young stars lies in the heart of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer)

in front of it

At the time the images were taken

with the bright belt of our Milky Way

M 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Framed Canvas dust and hot young starsA large spiral galaxy dominates this view from NASA's Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The galaxy, often called the Pinwheel galaxy, was designated object 101 in astronomer Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky that are not comets. Stargazers can find the galaxy with a pair of binoculars in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear). It is located about 3. 5 degrees east of the double stars Alcor and Mizar, the bend in