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M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, is the very first galaxy in which a spiral shape was noticed by a human. Irish astronomer Lord Rosse gets credit for that. In 1845 he said something like "Jesus Mary and Joseph this one's gone all spyralish I'll have me another Guinness."
