This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: The Whirlpool Galaxy

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening this spring to observe one of the sky’s finest deep-sky objects: the Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as M51. And as a bonus, you’ll also see a second galaxy — NGC 5195 — interacting with the Whirlpool. You’ll need a medium size telescope, such as aContinue reading “This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: The Whirlpool Galaxy”
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