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Object Information

Messier 74

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a face-on spiral galaxy which sits about 30 million light years from Earth and contains about 100 billion stars.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy.
Distance: 284,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 560,000,000,000,000,000 km.