Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 The 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.[5][6][7] It lies in the constellationCanes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.[8] Its distance is estimated to be 31 million light-years away from Earth.[9]

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