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Picture Album: "X" Structure at Core of Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

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"X" Structure at Core of Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

Credit: H. Ford (JHU/STScI), the Faint Object Spectrograph IDT, and NASA

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