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| Whirlpool galaxy comparison table | |||||||||||||||
| Subject | has purpose | is part of | is a kind of | has catalog | has classification criterion | has number of star | is an instance of | has synonym | has discovery date | has mass | has image | has definition | has distance | has discoverer | has Messier number |
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| Messier object | originally to catalog all objects which could be confused with a comet | celestial sphere | celestial body | Messier catalog | an object assigned a number by Charles Messier | from Earth | |||||||||
| Sc spiral | spiral galaxy | galaxy catalog | Subdivided according to the openness of the spiral arms as Sa spiral, Sb spiral or Sc spiral. | 106 to 1012 | 1010 to 1012 Msun | Spiral galaxy with arms widely spread out from the nucleus. | |||||||||
| Whirlpool galaxy | originally to catalog all objects which could be confused with a comet | celestial sphere | Messier catalog | Subdivided according to the openness of the spiral arms as Sa spiral, Sb spiral or Sc spiral. | 106 to 1012 | Messier object | NGC 5194 | 1773 | 1010 to 1012 Msun |  | from Earth | Charles Messier | 51 |
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