Tags: Galaxy.

Messier 95 (also known as M95 or NGC 3351) is a barred spiral galaxy about 38 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and catalogued by Charles Messier four days later. On 16 March 2012 a supernova was discovered in M95.

Messier95_spitzer.jpg

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Messier 95"; 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.