Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Whirlpool Galaxy

Whirlpool Galaxy
Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2010 at 19:28:20 (UTC)
 * Reason:Another high EV, very large (though not as large as the last, some will be happy to hear) picture of a galaxy. More than a little bit impressive to look at and great quality. Already featured on Commons, as well as the Turkish and Japanese Wikipedias. Caption copied from the article.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Whirlpool Galaxy, unbarred spiral galaxy, H II region, list of largest optical reflecting telescopes
 * FP category for this image:Space/Astronomy
 * Creator:NASA and European Space Agency


 * Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support -- That's amazing. It's even better than your other galaxy Hive001   contact  19:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support I've always liked this galaxy. --Lucas Brown 19:59, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And I would be the "some" who can now pledge full Support since this is clearly high quality (though slightly fuzzy) and EV that I hope we all can actually look at (though it was slightly slow to load). Milky way FTW! -- I'ḏ ♥  One  21:51, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry, that wasn't meant bitterly. J Milburn (talk) 22:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, NP. -- I'ḏ ♥  One  06:51, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Very nice. --Avenue (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support -- George Chernilevsky talk 14:54, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

-- Jujutacular  talk 21:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)