Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3586  ·  M 58  ·  M 89  ·  NGC 4550  ·  NGC 4551  ·  NGC 4552  ·  NGC 4564  ·  NGC 4579
Messier 58, Alessandro  Perenzin
Messier 58
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Messier 58

Messier 58, Alessandro  Perenzin
Messier 58
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Messier 58

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Messier 58 (also known as M58 and NGC 4579) is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy with a weak inner ring structure located within the constellationVirgo, approximately 68 million light-years away from Earth.=10.5px  It was discovered by Charles Messier on April 15, 1779 and is one of four barred spiral galaxies that appear in Messier's catalogue. M58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.=10.5px  From 1779 it was arguably (though unknown at that time) the farthest known astronomical object=10.5px until the release of the New General Catalogue in the 1880s and even more so the publishing of redshift values in the 1920s.

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Messier 58, Alessandro  Perenzin