Whirlpool Galaxy
NASA / ESA / Hubble, 2005
One spiral, and a smaller one yanking its arm. It looks like water. It is stars. The neighbor is not finished stealing.
About this work
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a, NGC 5194) is a grand-design spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, about 31 million light-years away and roughly 76,900 light-years across. It is interacting with its smaller companion, NGC 5195, seen at the end of one spiral arm; the pair can be seen in binoculars. Charles Messier discovered it on October 13, 1773, and William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle in Ireland, found that it had a spiral structure, the first "nebula" known to have one. Such spiral nebulae were not recognised as separate galaxies until Edwin Hubble measured the distances to Cepheid variable stars in some of them. This image is the composite released by the Hubble Heritage Project in January 2005, made with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys at 11,477 × 7,965 pixels. It highlights the galaxy's spiral arms and shows detail of some of the structures inside them.
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