Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  HD107888  ·  HD108272  ·  HD108348  ·  HD108422  ·  HD108487  ·  HD108560  ·  HD108577  ·  HD108593  ·  HD108613  ·  HD108614  ·  IC 3258  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3311  ·  IC 3344  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3381  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 794  ·  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  NGC 4351  ·  NGC 4374  ·  NGC 4387  ·  NGC 4388  ·  NGC 4402  ·  NGC 4406  ·  And 21 more.
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Markarians Chain 5h15m 20230316

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Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel and are now known primarily by their catalog numbers in John Louis Emil Dreyer's New General Catalogue, published in 1888.It was ultimately named after the Soviet astrophysicist, Benjamin Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s.

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