NASA has released a striking new composite image of the Pinwheel Galaxy Messier 101, combining observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Roughly 25 million light-years away, the 170,000-light-year wide spiral galaxy appears in multi-wavelength detail, highlighting a vast stellar population estimated at nearly one trillion stars.
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