Barred Spiral Galaxy · M95

M95 — NGC 3351

M95 is a barred spiral galaxy in Leo, about 38 million light-years away, and a member of the M96 Galaxy Group. It has a very distinct central ring of star formation surrounding its bar — a "circumnuclear ring" about 2,000 light-years across

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