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Caption: Figure 1.
Gray-scale map of the continuum-subtracted Hα image of M51. North is up and east to the left. The field of view is 7
2 × 10
2. Bright discrete H ii regions outline the spiral arms of NGC 5194, while NGC 5195 is surrounded by faint diffuse emission.
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