The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy. In the Catalogue of Named Galaxies, it is called Typhon Canum Venaticorum, after the Greek god Typhon.

📸 Paddy Gilliland FRAS
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