Lenticular Galaxy · M85

M85 — NGC 4382

M85 is a large lenticular (S0) galaxy in Coma Berenices, about 60 million light-years away at the northern edge of the Virgo Cluster. It is the most northerly of the Virgo Cluster galaxies in Messier's catalogue. It is interacting with a sm

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