# Whirlpool Galaxy on SpaceSphere

> A spiral seen face on, with a smaller galaxy caught at the outer tip of one of its arms.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/whirlpool-galaxy

Galaxy

A spiral seen face on, with a smaller galaxy caught at the outer tip of one of its arms.

## Facts

- **Position**: 202.46963, 47.19517 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 8.36 (Source: SIMBAD Astronomical Database)
- **Apparent size**: about 13.71 x 11.67 arcminutes (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Shape**: SABb (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Constellation**: Canes Venatici (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC5194, M51, 2MASX J13295269+4711429, IRAS 13277+4727, MCG +08-25-012, PGC 047404, UGC 08493

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- This research has made use of the [SIMBAD database](https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/), operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
- We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr).
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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