Galaxy
A grand-design spiral galaxy with well-defined arms, a favorite target for amateur astronomers due to its brightness.
| Type | Galaxy |
|---|---|
| Galaxy type | Spiral |
| Distance from Earth | 11,800,000 ly |
| Diameter | 908,000,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.99 × 10^41 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.94 |
| Redshift | 0.00013 |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Discovered | 1774 |
At 908,000,000,000,000,000 km across, Bode's Galaxy is 71,260,398,681,526 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 100,050,276,521 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Bode's Galaxy tonight left it around 11,800,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.00013, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 1774.
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