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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6099. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M99 is a spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. It was another Mechain discovery in March 1781, on the opposite side of the fifth-magnitude star 6 Comae Berenices from M98, but the two galaxies are of quite different appearance. Whereas M98 is edge-on to us, M99 is turned almost face-on so that it appears rounded in small instruments. It is classified as type Sc. Unusually, it seems to possess three sp...

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