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Original - The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is one of the most famous galaxies in the sky.
Reason
Another high EV, very large (though not as large as the last, some will be happy to hear) picture of a galaxy. More than a little bit impressive to look at and great quality. Already featured on Commons, as well as the Turkish and Japanese Wikipedias. Caption copied from the article.
Articles in which this image appears
Whirlpool Galaxy, unbarred spiral galaxy, H II region, list of largest optical reflecting telescopes
FP category for this image
Space/Astronomy
Creator
NASA and European Space Agency

Promoted File:Messier51 sRGB.jpg --Jujutacular talk 21:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]