This demonstrates that NGC 5195 appears to lie behind the Whirlpool Galaxy.

As a consequence of the gravitational interaction with the Whirlpool Galaxy, NGC 5195 is highly distorted.

In late March 1994, two high school students in Oil City, Pennsylvania, requested observations of the Whirlpool Galaxy.

SN 2011dh is a supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51).

The Whirlpool Galaxy or M51 was used as the basis for the galaxy in which the story of the Homeworld series of games takes place.

The group is named after the brightest galaxy in the group, the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51A).

The Whirlpool Galaxy is thirty-one million light-years away.

SN 2005cs was a supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy.

He uses it to study and draw the structure of nebulas, and within a few months discovers the spiral structure of the Whirlpool Galaxy.

There are a few exceptions such as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Whirlpool Galaxy, and others, but most simply have a catalog number.