Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  PGC 2292105  ·  PGC 2294282  ·  PGC 2297311  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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M51

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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 23 million light-years away from Earth.

NGC 5195 (also known as M51b) is a dwarf galaxy that is interacting with the Whirlpool Galaxy.

IC 4278 is a 15th magnitude irregular Galaxy appearing in the Hunting Dogs constellation. It is 230 million light years from our solar system.

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M51, Massimo Ermanni