An image of Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. (IMAGE)

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An image of Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, made with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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An image of Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. The bright blue clumps in the spiral arms are sites of recent star formation.

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NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana), and STScI

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