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ikenbot:

M101

New Image of the Pinwheel galaxy in Many Colors Shows Off 21 Million Year Old Light

This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA’s space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows that both young and old stars are evenly distributed along M101’s tightly-wound spiral arms.

Such composite images allow astronomers to see how features in one part of the spectrum match up with those seen in other parts. It is like seeing with a regular camera, an ultraviolet camera, night-vision goggles and X-ray vision, all at the same time.

The Pinwheel Galaxy is in the constellation of Ursa Major (also known as the Big Dipper). It is about 70% larger than our own Milky Way Galaxy, with a diameter of about 170,000 light years, and sits at a distance of 21 million light years from Earth.

This means that the light we’re seeing in this image left the Pinwheel Galaxy about 21 million years ago - many millions of years before humans ever walked the Earth.

saidtheboytothegirl:

Photo:

Ryan Mcginley. Self-Portrait (Car Accident). 1998.

Note:

“It was one of the hottest days of summer. I was riding my bike with my shirt off and I got hit by a car. My ass and back got dragged along the pavement for a good ten feet. The screeching noise those tires made haunts me to this day. It was my fault, but the driver was so freaked out that he gave me all the money in his wallet, close to $400. I was psyched! My back still has fucking gravel in it.”

disturber-magazine:

Ryan McGinley - Turkin (Army Green)

rollingstone:

Britney Spears autographs a print of the cover of the Rolling Stone issue featuring Vanessa Grigoriadis’ classic “The Tragedy of Britney Spears” story.

(Source: perpetua)

ikenbot:

Saturn The Giant

cavetocanvas:

Alexander Rodchenko, Composition (Winning Red), 1918