Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  M 99  ·  NGC 4254  ·  NGC 4262  ·  NGC 4298  ·  NGC 4302  ·  Pin-wheel nebula
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M99 in Coma Berenices, Jim Thommes
M99 in Coma Berenices
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M99 in Coma Berenices

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M99 in Coma Berenices, Jim Thommes
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M99 in Coma Berenices

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North is up in this image. M99 is the galaxy toward the right of the image, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Coma Beremices. It is also a member of the large Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. It is somewhat asymmetric and not much to account for the asymmetry other than speculation on gravitational encounters with other cluster member galaxies. Toward the upper left are galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298. There are several other visually smaller galaxies in the field better seen in the full size image or in the annotated image. M99's distance from Earth is popularly given as 60 million light years, but several Tully -Fisher estimates put it between about 50-55 million light years. NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 are about the same distance by Tully-Fisher. Horizontal FOV is 88'

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