Deep-sky object
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy 14 700 000 light-years away, in Hydra, about 58 000 light-years across.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Barred Spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance
- 14 700 000 light-years
- Size
- about 58 000 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 7.2
- Catalogue
- M83, NGC 5236
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.