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M 82 · Galaxy · Ursa Major

Cigar Galaxy

Also known as NGC 3034 · PGC 28655 · UGC 5322

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Type

Galaxy

Constellation

Ursa Major

Position (J2000)

9h 55m 53s · +69° 40′ 46″

Discovered

by Johann Elert Bode in 1774

Pictures

3

Typical integration

4 h

Magnitude

8.3

visual

Size

11′ × 5.1′

Distance

~13,000,000 ly

Best months

Jan–Mar

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.