Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Whirlpool Galaxy

Whirlpool Galaxy

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Original - The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is one of the most famous galaxies in the sky.

Reason

Another high EV, very large (though not as large as the last, some will be happy to hear) picture of a galaxy. More than a little bit impressive to look at and great quality. Already featured on Commons, as well as the Turkish and Japanese Wikipedias. Caption copied from the article.

Articles in which this image appears

Whirlpool Galaxy, unbarred spiral galaxy, H II region, list of largest optical reflecting telescopes

FP category for this image

Space/Astronomy

Creator

NASA and European Space Agency

• Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support -- That's amazing. It's even better than your other galaxy Hive001 contact 19:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support I've always liked this galaxy. --Lucas Brown 19:59, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
• And I would be the "some" who can now pledge full Support since this is clearly high quality (though slightly fuzzy) and EV that I hope we all can actually look at (though it was slightly slow to load). Milky way FTW! --I'ḏ♥One 21:51, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
  • Yeah, sorry, that wasn't meant bitterly. J Milburn (talk) 22:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
    • Oh, NP. --I'ḏ♥One 06:51, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Very nice. --Avenue (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support --George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:54, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Messier51 sRGB.jpg --Jujutacular ^talk 21:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)