Deep-sky object
Pinwheel Galaxy
Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy somewhere between 19 100 000 and 22 400 000 light-years away, in Ursa Major, about 140 000 light-years across.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance
- 19 100 000 to 22 400 000 light-years
- Size
- about 140 000 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 7.9
- Catalogue
- M101, NGC 5457
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.