li 206i M94 NGC4736

M94

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M94 Messier 94 (also known as NGC 4736) is a spiral galaxy in the mid-northern constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, and catalogued by Charles Messier two days later. Although some references describe M94 as …

li 707 M93

M93

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M93 Messier 93 or M93, also known as NGC 2447, is an open cluster in the modestly southern constellation Puppis, the imagined poop deck of the legendary Argo. It was discovered by Charles Messier then added to his catalogue of …

li 830 MG 0788

M88

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M88 Messier 88 (also known as M88 or NGC 4501) is a spiral galaxy about 50 to 60 million light-years away from Earth[3][4][5] in the constellation Coma Berenices. M88 is one of the fifteen Messier objects that belong to the …

li 825 MG 0768 M87 only

M87

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M87 Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local …

li 834 MG 0801

M85

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M85 Messier 85 (also known as M85 or NGC 4382 or PGC 40515 or ISD 0135852) is a lenticular galaxy, or elliptical galaxy for other authors, in the Coma Berenices constellation. It is 60 million light-years away, and it is …

li 232i M75 6864

M75

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M75 M75 or Messier 75, also known as NGC 6864, is a giant globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included in Charles Messier’s catalog of comet-like objects that …