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M 101 · Pinwheel Galaxy

M 101 · Galaxy · Ursa Major

Pinwheel Galaxy

Also known as NGC 5457 · PGC 50063 · UGC 8981

Messier 101
Smart Telescope · Small Targets

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Type: Galaxy
Constellation: Ursa Major
Position (J2000): 14h 03m 13s · +54° 20′ 56″
Discovered: by Pierre Méchain in 1781

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 7.9; visual
Size: 24′ × 23.1′
Distance: ~23,000,000 ly
Best months: Mar–May

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.

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