The Whirlpool Galaxy Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is estimated to be 23-million light-years away.
Taken in visible light with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), this image shows a magnified view of the magnificent spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. It highlights the attributes of a typical spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters M51, also known as NGC 5194, is engaged in a close encounter with a nearby galaxy, NGC 5195, outside the field of view of this image. The companion's gravitational pull triggers star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in the numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars. The bright clusters are highlighted in red by their associated emission from glowing hydrogen gas. Along the spiral arms, dust "spurs" are seen branching out almost perpendicular to the main spiral arms. The large number and regularity of these features are not fully understood, suggesting that previous computer models of "two-arm" spiral galaxies are incomplete. For more information, please visit: hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2011-03 Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
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The Whirlpool Galaxy Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is estimated to be 23-million light-years away.
Messier 51, known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici. It was originally discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier on October 13,...
Messier objects are some of the most imaged objects in the universe. In part that’s because many of them are so visibly appealing. A good example of that is the Whirlpool galaxy, M51, which recently received an even more dramatic visual representation with a new photo released by NASA. In it, the magnetic fields that … Continue reading "The Magnetic Fields Swirling Within the Whirlpool Galaxy"
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the whirlpool galaxy - fibonacci in action "Collisions play an important role in galaxy evolution. These two galaxies – the Whirlpool and its companion – are relatively nearby at a distance of just 23...
IC434 Horsehead and Flame Nebula,NGC6302 Butterfly Nebula,M51. Whirlpool Galaxy & NGC7635 Helix Nebula (Hubble_NASA)
M 51 Whirlpool-Galaxie, auch genannt Strudel-Galaxie ist etwa 31 Millionen Lichtjahre von uns entfernt und befindet sich im Sternbild Jagdhunde.
Target:M51, Whirlpool Galaxy, Canes Venatici, 31 million light years away. Location:March 2022 over 4 nights, St Helens & Aberdaron, UK. Acquisition:59x Red 120s, 61x Green 120s, 60x Blue 120s, 58x 240s Ha, Bin 2x2, 30x Darks, DarkFlats, Flats per filter per session. Total integration 9.9 hours. Equipment:Skywatcher 200P Newtonian, EQ6RPro, HEQ5Pro, Altair H183MMPro, ZWO EFWmini & RGB, Baader MPCC MkIII x1 Coma corrector & 6nm Ha. Guiding:Skywatcher 9x50 Finder with 2x barlow (FL 360mm) and Altair GPCAMAR0130M. Software:Nina, PHD2, EQMOD. Processing:Affinity Photo, Siril, StarXTerminator, Topaz DeNoise AI.
