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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. Shown here is a true-colour picture using BVR imaging on the INT wide field camera. This picture was generated from three two-minute exposures. The field size of this single Loral CCD image is 12.6 arcminutes.
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