what this day in history will remember right now hello october 13, 1773, the french astronomer charme messierthe first galaxy with a spiral structure. it is called a whirlpool and is located in the constellation of hounds of dogs . the scientist was interested in comets, he was even called the comet hunter, but he also found galaxies globular clusters, planetary and emission nebulae. all of them were included in the famous catalog of monsieur whirlpool compiled by him. it is designated as an object m51 and described as a very dim nebula without stars, and a spiraling phenomenon. galaxies were discovered already in the 19th century by a british astronomer. lord rus. from the earth. it is separated by 23 million light-years, the diameter of the galaxy is 100,000 light-years, in the center there is a huge black hole, and around it is a dusty ring of realized gas, which moves at speed. more than 3 million km / h, a whirlpool can be found in the sky, even amateur astronomers, but it is best to observe it in the middle and northern latitudes in spring or in the summer of october 13, 1884, at an int