| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1925 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1925 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| COLLECTION | Image archive |
| TITLE | M51 |
| KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;Messier |
| DATE | 2001-04-01 |
| DESCRIPTION | A comparison between the M51 image taken using the PFC on the WHT and an image of the same object from Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Project. M51 galaxy, known as The Whirlpool Galaxy, is a bright spiral galaxy fairly close to us (7.5 Megaparsecs = 25 million light years). To the north of M51, at the bottom of the picture, is a companion galaxy which is being disrupted by the gravitational tidal forces of the main galaxy. |
| CREDIT | Javier Mendez, Nik Szymanek and HST Heritage Project. |
| TELESCOPE | WHT |
| INSTRUMENT | PFIP |
| THUMB_200 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/m51comp.jpg |
| AVAILABLE FILES | JPG (116K) 807×510 pixels |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-09-01 20:48:49 |
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