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8 photos tagged spiralgalaxy, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• galaxy
• chandraxrayobservatory
• space
• smithsonianinstitution
• smithsonianastrophysicalobservatory
• astronomy
• chandra
• hubble
• nebula
• xray
• blue
• astralphotography
• stars
• m101
• hst
• hubblespacetelescope
• wfpc
• optical
• nasa
• m51
• binarysystem
• whirlpoolgalaxy
• orange
• green

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• Smithsonian Institution 5 photos
• NASA on The Commons 3 photos

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A Pinwheel in X-rays (A large spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major.)

from Smithsonian Institution

• Susanne said:

  Thank you for making these images available!

• 黄 蔚锜 said:

  O(∩_∩)O

• leiah arrr said:

  beauuuuutiful!

Sombrero Galaxy: A Great Observatories View (A spiral galaxy, also known as M104, in the Virgo cluster about 28 million light years away.)

from Smithsonian Institution

• Helmuts Rudzītis said:

  amazing space, the older i get, the more i want to go outthere :D

• duiceburger said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called NASA - Public Domain, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Western_Rush said:

  Awesome! Beyond words!

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.

from Smithsonian Institution

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Savage Hippie Girl said:

  Beautiful

• Life's_One_Vermillion_Enemy said:

  wow

• Charlene Frank said:

  Stunning formation and colours, looks like a virus or bacterial culture! I know its not though.

• Paul Blanchard said:

  Wow ! The texts you wrote are passionnating !!! The photo is amazing too... I'm very impressed. But of course, Hubble takes better shots ;) Lol, kidding, yours are excellent as well. Bye.

• Catalina Pachao said:

  genial! =)