M87: The Massive Galaxy

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2608. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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Messier 87 (NGC 4486) is a giant elliptical galaxy which dominates the core of the nearby VIRGO CLUSTER of galaxies at a distance of about 16 Mpc from the Sun. It is the archetypal example of the class of brightest cluster galaxies which dominate the centers of many rich concentrated clusters and, with a total visual magnitude of about 9.6, it is about 4 times brighter than our own Milky Way Gala...

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