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Object Information

Messier 100

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a spiral galaxy found over 75 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy.
Distance: 723,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 1,520,000,000,000,000,000 km.