Pinwheel Galaxy
At a glance
- Type
- Galaxy
- Distance
- Other galaxies
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- White, Blue
- Feature
- Spiral arms
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It is much wider than our Milky Way, about 170,000 light years across.
- Exploding stars called supernovae flared up in it in 2011 and again in 2023.
Could you guess it from clues?
WildGuessr picks a secret animal, plant, fungus, stone, prehistoric creature or space object and you ask yes-or-no questions about it, such as its group or where it grows. The fewer clues you need, the more points you score.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q14371 · All space objects · All entries