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Caldwell 44

Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

This is a barred spiral galaxy which lies over 100 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar with an Active Nucleus.
Distance: 1,090,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 77,400,000,000,000,000,000 km.