M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy
About 23 million light-years away, the Whirlpool Galaxy is about a third the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way. With about 100 billion stars, there’s a near certainty that this image contains a star that is orbited by a planet with life on its surface; but as the light has taken 23 million years to reach us, that life will now be long extinct.
About 23 million light-years away, the Whirlpool Galaxy is about a third the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way. With about 100 billion stars, there’s a near certainty that this image contains a star that is orbited by a planet with life on its surface; but as the light has taken 23 million years to reach us, that life will now be long extinct.
About 23 million light-years away, the Whirlpool Galaxy is about a third the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way. With about 100 billion stars, there’s a near certainty that this image contains a star that is orbited by a planet with life on its surface; but as the light has taken 23 million years to reach us, that life will now be long extinct.