Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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M-63, The Sunflower Galaxy, LRGB, 29 hrs, riot1013
M-63, The Sunflower Galaxy, LRGB, 29 hrs
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M-63, The Sunflower Galaxy, LRGB, 29 hrs

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M-63, The Sunflower Galaxy, LRGB, 29 hrs

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Messier 63, The Sunflower Galaxy, is a spiral in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.  The shape or morphology of this galaxy has a classification of SAbc, indicating a spiral form with no central bar feature (SA) and moderate to loosely wound arms (bc). There is a general lack of large-scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy. However, when observed in the near infrared, a symmetric, two-arm structure is seen. Each arm wraps 150° around the galaxy and extends out to 13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs) from the nucleus.

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