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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6098.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6098. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M98 is a spiral galaxy in southern Coma Berenices, just 0.5 degrees from the fifth-magnitude star 6 Comae Berenices. It was a Mechain discovery, in March 1781. M98 is a spiral galaxy of intermediate type lying nearly edge-on to us, as a result of which it appears extremely elongated in shape, about four times longer than it is wide. William Herschel in 1783 declared that `its feeble branches exte...

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