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Messier 109

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a barred spiral galaxy which was discovered in 1781 and the largest in a small group named the M109 group after this galaxy.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar.
Distance: 697,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 1,370,000,000,000,000,000 km.