This beautiful Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is interacting with the smaller galaxy on the right. Also known by its catalog number M51, the galaxy is in the constellation of Canes Venatici and is estimated to be roughly 23 million light years away.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.