Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
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M81  M82  Bodes Galaxy, Edward Overstreet
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M81 M82 Bodes Galaxy

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M81 M82 Bodes Galaxy

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M 81 is the brightest of a group of 34 galaxies called the Messier 81 Galaxy Group. The distance to the center of the cluster is about 12 million light years. It is the second nearest galaxy group to our Local Group (after the Sculptor Galaxy Group

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M81  M82  Bodes Galaxy, Edward Overstreet