Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Messier 106

Messier 106

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Original – The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope – with a little help from an amateur astronomer – has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million light-years away, practically a neighbour by cosmic standards, Messier 106 is one of the brightest and nearest spiral galaxies to our own.

Reason

Its a damn good high-res quality image of Messier 106, a galaxy of secrets.

Articles in which this image appears

Messier 106

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team and Robert Gendler. Acknowledgment: R. Jay GaBany

• Support as nominator –  - T H (here I am) 09:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Amazing. Jim Carter 12:28, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Looks great in 2000 pixel size but as the one above, loses quite a bit due to grain/noise in full size. --Janke | Talk 14:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Hafspajen (talk) 14:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Amazing and beautiful. CorinneSD (talk) 01:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Messier 106 visible and infrared composite.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 26 February 2015 (UTC)