Canes Venatici
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Canes Venatici is one of the 88 constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union. It is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century. Its n
Canes Venatici as depicted in Hevelius's star atlas. Note that, per the conventions of the time, the image is mirrored.
Canes Venatici can be seen in the orientation it appears to the eyes in this 1825 star chart from Urania's Mirror.
The constellation Canes Venatici as it is seen by the naked eye in twilight
Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
TON 618
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TON 618 is a hyperluminous, broad-emission-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving di
Canes Venatici
…Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy tilted face-on to observers on Earth, and was the first galaxy whose spiral nature was discerned. In addition, quasar TON 618 is one of the most massive black holes with the mass of 40 billion solar masses. Canes Venatici is bordered by Ursa Major to the north and west, Coma…
A computer simulated close-up view of a Lyman-alpha blob. A similar gas cloud is present at TON 618.