Tags: Galaxy.

Messier 83 (also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 or NGC 5236) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky making it visible with binoculars. Six supernovae (SN 1923A SN 1945B SN 1950B SN 1957D SN 1968L and SN 1983N) have been observed in M83.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Messier 83"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.