M51, Mohammad Rahimi

M51

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The Whirlpool Galaxy M51 is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. Recently it was estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy, but different methods yield distances between 15 and 35 million ly. Messier 51 is one of the best known galaxies in the sky.

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M51, Mohammad Rahimi