Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4231  ·  NGC 4232  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M 106 and background galaxies, AstroGeoGuy2590
M 106 and background galaxies
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M 106 and background galaxies

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M 106 and background galaxies, AstroGeoGuy2590
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M 106 and background galaxies

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M 106 is the big galaxy in this image. It's about 25 Mly away and has an active nucleus that harbors a 40-million-solar-mass black hole! It's spewing out a lot of gas and dust as you can tell by the dark splotches obscuring the yellow core. NGC 4248 and UGC 7356 are small  satellite galaxies of M 106. But NGC 4232 and 4231 are more distant galaxies about 340 Mly away! And there are lots of other small fuzzies (see the ?) that are even more distant galaxies -- perhaps pushing a billion light-years? I used 158 50-sec exposures at iso 800 to make this image.

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M 106 and background galaxies, AstroGeoGuy2590