M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 29, 2023 4:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science ...

The galaxy is officially named Messier 51 (M51) or NGC 5194, but often goes by its nickname of the “Whirlpool Galaxy.” Like the Milky Way, ...

The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail.

Messier 51 (M51) is perhaps better known by its nickname of the Whirlpool Galaxy because its face-on orientation to Earth reveals its wound-up spiral arms. This gives telescopes here a view of another ...

M51 — also known as NGC 5194 — is located in the constellation Canes Venatici. In its latest press release on the galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) says it's about 27 million light-years ...

The Galaxy M51 or M41 is expected to sport a 6.5-inch flat screen and will be powered by a Snapdragon 720G or Snapdragon 662. Either way, not a 5G-capable chip. There could be as little as 6GB of ...

Samsung is working on numerous Galaxy M devices for the year 2020. We now have some crucial information on the Galaxy M51 and Galaxy M31s. Find out here.

M51 is the grander of the two, measuring nearly 90,000 light-years across and shining with a luminosity of about 10 billion suns. NGC 5195 is a small disk galaxy some 55,000 light-years across.

Why it matters — M51-ULS-1b is the first exoplanet candidate astronomers have found orbiting a star in another galaxy; Di Stefano and her colleagues call it an “extroplanet.” “The search ...