Whirlpool Galaxy, Ed Albin

Whirlpool Galaxy

Whirlpool Galaxy, Ed Albin

Whirlpool Galaxy

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The Whirlpool Galaxy is one of the most iconic spiral galaxies in the night sky. This image was taken on the morning of January 16th over a period of four hours of exposure time. Although this galaxy is found in the obscure constellation of Canes Venatici, it's best remembered for being just off the the nearby Big Dipper. Cataloged as M51 in Charles Messier's famous logbook of deep-sky objects, the galaxy is a remarkably perfect spiral of stars with a secondary smaller galaxy at the end of one of its arms. Star formation is actively happening in this star system more than 30 million light years from Earth.

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