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This is not a Hubble Telescope picture, but a stunning star snap taken by an amateur.

From the "Metro" paper, September 20, 2012.

Australia-based Martin Pugh has been named the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Photographer of the year.
Pugh's image of the Whirlpool Galaxy(also known as M51), which also won the Deep Space category, was taken using a 43-centimetre-diameter Plane Wave telescope at an observatory in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains.

following a total 37,000,000 light years is how far the Whirlpool Galaxy id from Earth. Pugh acquired his winning photo following a total exposure time of 28 hours.

Marek Kukula says that the image is better than Hubble.
It is a beautifully framed composition, and has a sense of the infinite universe.
The photographer has made the most of exceptionally good atmospheric conditions to capture an astonishing range of detail in his image of this iconic galaxy.
The beautiful spiral structure, dark lanes of dust, and the way the pink clouds of Hydrogen really stand out.Here you can see the small companion galaxy being gradually torn apart by the gravity of its giant neighbour.
The image is perhaps not the most eye-catching, but because of the amount of fine detail, it is a winner.