Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5169  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  NGC 5198  ·  NGC 5229  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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M51 Widefield, Casey Good
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Messier 51, the whirlpool galaxy, is why I got started in astrophotography. I love this galaxy, it's perfect spiral, the intense blue star formatting regions, and the cannibalization of it's neighbor. All amazing to see come out in an image.

The galaxy itself is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 35 million light-years.

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