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M102 (NGC 5866)
Magnitude 9.9 lenticular galaxy located 50 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. One of the most outstanding features of NGC 5866 is the extended dust disk, which is seen almost exactly edge-on. This dust lane is highly unusual for a lenticular galaxy.
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M102 Spindle Galaxy
Magnitude 9.9 lenticular galaxy located 50 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. It is also identified as NGC 5866.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m102 #ngc5866 #galaxy #draco #messier #messiermarathon
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NASA's Spitzer Spots a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy
Galaxy NGC 5866 lies 44 million light-years from Earth and has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years — a little more than half the diameter of our own Milky Way galaxy. From our viewpoint, NGC 5866 is oriented almost exactly edge-on, yielding most of its structural features invisible.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
