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Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele Hernandez Bayliss has captured stunning views of Messier 94 - also known as the Croc's Eye galaxy - and the famous Whirlpool galaxy (M 51), both of which ...

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In a remarkable feat of amateur astrophotography, Michele Hernandez Bayliss, a Vermont-based astronomer, has managed to ...

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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 ...

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This image shows a magnified view of the magnificent spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA ...

Likewise, the image of the Whirlpool galaxy, M51, is a bit soft. With more data, I'm pretty sure I could bring out more detail in the dust lanes swirling around the galactic center on a clear ...

NASA, ESA, and H.E. Bond / STSCI It's too bad Edgar Allan Poe couldn't have used Hubble's vertiginous image of the Whirlpool Galaxy to illustrate "A Descent into the Maelstrom." The red regions ...