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Messier 51
Messier 51
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello, Alessandro Falesiedi, Mario Lovrencie, Tim Stone (Sezione Nazionale di Ricerca Profondo Cielo /UAI)
Messier 51, also called The Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) is an interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from us.
This is a scientific-grade deep image of the M51 system, performed to study the weak tidal structures that tell its interaction story and trace the morphology of the tides up to a surface brightness magnitude 29 arcsec −2.
Messier 51
Messier 51
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello, Alessandro Falesiedi, Mario Lovrencie, Tim Stone (Sezione Nazionale di Ricerca Profondo Cielo /UAI)
Messier 51, also called The Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) is an interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from us.
This is a scientific-grade deep image of the M51 system, performed to study the weak tidal structures that tell its interaction story and trace the morphology of the tides up to a surface brightness magnitude 29 arcsec −2.