June 26, 1995
Consider this: the iron in your blood was forged in a supernova explosion billions of years ago.
Spiral Galaxy M100
Birthday · June 26, 1995
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APOD published June 26, 1995. Full image credits are on the original APOD entry below. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Today's Picture: June 26, 1995 The Spiral Galaxy M100 Picture Credit: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Explanation: The M100 galaxy is a large spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way, containing over 100 billion stars. It is over 150 million light years away, so the light we see left when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The picture was taken in 1993 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. For more information see NASA Space Telescope Scientific Institute press release. We keep an archive of previous Astronomy Pictures of the Day. Astronomy Picture of the Day is brought to you by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell . Original material on this page is copyrighted to Robert J. Nemiroff and Jerry T. Bonnell.