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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6059.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6059. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M59 is an early-type (i.e. old) elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo and a member of the Virgo cluster (the nearest cluster of galaxies, much larger than our own Local Group). It is considerably less luminous than M49, M60 and M87 but still one of the brighter elliptical galaxies in the cluster. M59 contains around 2000 globular clusters, easily 10 times more than the Milky Way but much f...

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