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So when he turned his enormous instrument towards M51, he saw something just astonishing. It's like, imagine that smudge that we had thought coming from SEA. This guy's looking at what we came to know as the Whirlpool Galaxy, and it's got these curling arms of stars and dust, you know, just mind-blowing. I can't imagine what that must have felt like. Suddenly you're seeing that level of complexity through the eyes of your telescope. Pretty neat.