Art Resource - AR924312

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Spiral galaxy (M 51) in Canes Venatici, 1910.

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Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland, 1924-1926.Artist: W Lawrence

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Birr Castle, Count Offaly, Ireland, home of the Earl of Rosse, c1880.

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Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850. Artist: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850. Known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, this was the first galaxy to be recognised as having a spiral structure, by the British astronomer William Parsons, Lord Rosse in 1845. Rosse built a telescope at Birr Castle in Ireland between 1842 and 1844. Known as 'The Leviathan of Parsonstown', the Rosse telescope had a six foot speculum (mirror), and was the largest telescope in the world for 75 years, only being superseded by the 100-inch reflector at Mount Wilson, California in 1917. From Lord Rosse's paper Observations of Nebulae published in Philosophical Transactions, London, 1850.

Unique Identifier AR924312

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 4908px × 3558px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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