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Object Information

NGC3079

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a barred spiral galaxy around 50 million light years form Earth. It had a bubble of gas in the centre caused by a lot of star formation.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar.
Distance: 613,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 48,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.