M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy, Graham Conaty
M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy, Graham Conaty

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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. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 31 million light-years away from Earth.

The LRGB data for this image was obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive with post-processing being carried out in PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

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