Sunflower Galaxy (M63) (DoubleStarPhotography)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · PGC 2189522 · PGC 2189676 · PGC 2191533 · PGC 2191787 · PGC 2193890 · PGC 2194083 · PGC 46093 · Sunflower Galaxy

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Sunflower Galaxy (M63)

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The Sunflower Galaxy, also known as Messier 63, M63 or NGC 5055, is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.

M63 is known a flocculent spiral. Unlike grand-design spiral galaxies, flocculent spiral galaxies do not have well defined spiral arms. Instead, they appear to have many discontinuous arms.

This galaxy is located roughly 27 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici.

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RA (center)	13h15m49s.402
RA (top/left)	13h17m38s.672
RA (top/right)	13h14m04s.398
RA (bottom/right)	13h14m00s.576
RA (bottom/left)	13h17m33s.859

Dec (center)	+42°01′50″.99
Dec (top/left)	+42°10′57″.54
Dec (top/right)	+42°12′35″.53
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°52′44″.77
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°51′08″.27

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