The European Space Agency has released a new image of a distant whirlpool galaxy, taken by the James Webb telescope. Even though the galaxy - also know as M51 - has been pictured before ...

This month the Sky at Night is focusing all its attention on one object M51 aka The Whirlpool Galaxy. Sitting approximately 30 million light years from Earth, this spectacular spiral galaxy was ...

NASA likened the galaxy to "a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space" with its arms made up of lanes of newly-formed stars. The below image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or M51. Charles Messier was scanning the sky for objects that could confuse ...