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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

The Whirlpool Galaxy (Messier 51a, NGC 5194) is a classic grand-design spiral galaxy located roughly 31 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Famous for its clear face-on orientation and gravitational interaction with a smaller companion galaxy (NGC 5195), it shines at an apparent magnitude of about

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