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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6090.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6090. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M90 is one of the larger spirals in the Virgo cluster but it has little mass. It also has one of the largest velocities of approach of all the Messier objects and may possibly be in the process of escaping from the Virgo cluster. Its spiral arms are tightly wound and smooth but, unusually for a spiral, there is no ongoing star formation in the arms but only in the inner disk region. The galaxy ma...

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