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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a...

wikipedia - 13 Oct 2021
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.[5][6][7] It lies in the constellation Canes 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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