Whirlpool Galaxy
At a glance
- Type
- Galaxy
- Distance
- Other galaxies
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Blue, Multicoloured
- Feature
- Spiral arms
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In 1845 Lord Rosse made a famous drawing of it using the biggest telescope in the world at that time.
- A smaller companion galaxy, NGC 5195, sits right next to it and tugs at it with its gravity.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q13957 · All space objects · All entries