Whirlpool

Wispy light from 23 million years ago. The Whirpool galaxy is the first to be classified as a spiral galaxy.
This was when the early Miocene period was going on the earth.  The great apes had appeared on the earth, and ancestors of the human family too.  Humans would arise only 2.5 million years ago and anatomically modern ones only 0.8-0.3 million years ago.

Imaging Details

Whirlpool
Mar  12, 2019
40°15’23”N 74 74°28’20”W
90s, ISO 3200
© Purnendu Gupta

For reference here is the level of detail that Hubble sees (Source Nasa and ESA)