A spiral that can beat you with two arms tied behind its back

Messier 106 is an elongated spiral galaxy, seen by us at a low angle, in the constellation of Canes Venatici (CANE-eez ven-AT-ih-sigh, the hunting dogs). It's about 25 million light years away, give or take. That may sound far -- 250 million trillion kilometers! -- but for Hubble, that's considered close. So if you take a stack of Hubble images of M106 and put them together, as amateur astronomer Andre vd Hoeven did, you get a lovely picture it!