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Object Information

UGC4966

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a spiral galaxy around 45 million light years from Earth, it looks much like our neighbour the Andromeda galaxy.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy.
Distance: 525,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 57,900,000,000,000,000,000 km.