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  2. Messier 83 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy [7] approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille discovered M83 on 17 February 1752 at the Cape of Good Hope. [8]

  3. Pinwheel Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Dark sky image with some objects around Pinwheel Galaxy (M 101). The quarter in the lower right shows the tail of Ursa Major with the stars Mizar, Alcor and Alkaid.. The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on, unbarred, and counterclockwise spiral galaxy located 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) [5] from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

  4. SN 2011fe - Wikipedia

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    SN 2011fe, initially designated PTF 11kly, was a Type Ia supernova discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey on 24 August 2011 during an automated review of images of the Messier 101 from the nights of 22 and 23 August 2011.

  5. A huge star just exploded, and you can actually see it - AOL

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    Boom.In the colossal Pinwheel galaxy, 25 million light-years away, a star has just exploded and is even visible through small telescopes. The supernova-hunting astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered ...

  6. Ursa Major - Wikipedia

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    The Pinwheel Galaxy. Several bright galaxies are found in Ursa Major, including the pair Messier 81 (one of the brightest galaxies in the sky) and Messier 82 above the bear's head, and Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a spiral northeast of Alkaid. The spiral galaxies Messier 108 and Messier 109 are also found in this constellation.

  7. Messier 99 - Wikipedia

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    Coma Pinwheel Galaxy, Virgo Cluster Pinwheel, M99, NGC 4254, PGC 39578, UGC 7345 [9] Messier 99 or M99 , also known as NGC 4254 or St. Catherine's Wheel , is a grand design spiral galaxy in the northern constellation Coma Berenices approximately 15,000,000 parsecs (49,000,000 light-years ) from the Milky Way . [ 5 ]

  8. Battersea Park funfair disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Big Dipper was replaced with a modern steel roller coaster known as The Cyclone, but the funfair's popularity remained low. The accident along with development problems led to the fair's closure on 22 September 1974. [2] [1] The site of the disaster is no longer accessible to the public.

  9. Star Tours at 35: A Timeline From 'Star Wars' Simulator Ride ...

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    The ride’s designers, including legendary Imagineers Tony Baxter and Tom Fitzgerald, recognized the potential for the system’s hydraulic lifts to create a hyper realistic Star Wars adventure.