🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy 🪐
Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. It is a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars with well-defined spiral arms that is similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100 (alias NGC 4321) is 56 million light-years distant toward the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). This Hubble Space Telescope image of M100 was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 and accentuates bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Studies of variable stars in M100 have played an important role in determining the size and age of the Universe.
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| Name | Craft |
|---|---|
| Sergey Prokopyev | ISS |
| Dmitry Petelin | ISS |
| Frank Rubio | ISS |
| Fei Junlong | Shenzhou 15 |
| Deng Qingming | Shenzhou 15 |
| Zhang Lu | Shenzhou 15 |
| Stephen Bowen | ISS |
| Warren Hoburg | ISS |
| Sultan Alneyadi | ISS |
| Andrey Fedyaev | ISS |
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