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      Wallpaper author:
      Paul Waddington

      02 Feb 2026

      M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy

      M51, or NGC 5194, is an interacting spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.


      Processed in SAS Pro, deconvolution with GraXpert, final processing in Affinity Photo and NoiseXterminator

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      M51

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      M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy