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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke6083.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6083. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M83 is a spiral galaxy of type SABc (i.e. it is an intermediate type between a barred spiral and a normal spiral galaxy) in Hydra (sometimes referred to as the `Pinwheel Galaxy'). It was fist discovered by Lacaille during the time he spent at the Cape of Good Hope (1751-2) and is therefore the first galaxy beyond the Local Group to be discovered. Its distance is estimated at 15 million light-year...

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