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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6074.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6074. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M74 is a spiral galaxy in Pisces with a linear diameter of 95 000 light-years (i.e. of roughly the size of the Milky Way) and a visual magnitude of 9.4. In many ways, this is a prototypical `grand design' spiral. Its arms are about 1000 light-years broad, it has a very small and bright nucleus and is particularly beautiful on photographs because it is face-on. As well as its normal appearance, ho...

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