Deep Sky

Barred spiral galaxy
Constellation: Ursa Major
A member of the Ursa Major Cluster, cluster of galaxies and known as a loosely wound arms of a spiral galaxy (SBbc), it was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1782. 
Quite a bit seems to be known about this galaxy.  The mass is some 125 billion times that of the sun; it has between 290 globular clusters: and there are 83 separate X-ray sources coming from this bad boy.  Lastly, the supermassive black hole is estimated to be approx 24 million, that’s million times the mass of our sun.
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Date: 03-12-13