M77

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6077.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6077. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M77 is a spiral galaxy in Cetus, at a distance of about 60 million light-years and with a diameter of between 120 000 and 170 000 light-years. It belongs to the class of galaxies known as `Seyfert galaxies', i.e. it has a brilliant nucleus with intense star-forming activity in a disk around it, an emission-line spectrum and fairly faint spiral arms. Seyfert galaxies themselves are a particular ty...

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