Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Patrick Stevenson
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51aM51a, and NGC 5194, is an interactinggrand-designspiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2active galactic nucleus.=10.5px  It lies in the constellationCanes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.=10.5px  Its distance is 31 million light-years from Earth.=10.5px  (Wikipedia)

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