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Object Information

Messier 94

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a spiral galaxy with an unusal 'ring' structure and sitting approximately 16 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy.
Distance: 157,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 189,000,000,000,000,000 km.