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Messier Gallery
M61, a 10th-magnitude spiral galaxy located in Virgo.
Note the tightly wound inner arms, the bar around the nucleus, and the faint outer arms. Exposure time was 60 seconds, at 10:40 UT on 23 April 1996.
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