Messier 85 [SEP] constellation
Messier 85
Messier 85 (also known as M85 or NGC 4382 or PGC 40515 or ISD 0135852) is a lenticular galaxy, or elliptical galaxy for other authors, in the Coma Berenices constellation. It is 60 million light-years away, and it is estimated to be 125,000 light-years across.
It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. It is the northernmost outlier of the Virgo cluster discovered as of 2004.
Properties.
M85 is extremely poor in neutral hydrogen and has a very complex outer
M59
M59 may refer to:
- Messier 59, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo
- M59 (APC), a United States military vehicle
- M59 rifle, a Yugoslav copy of the SKS
- M-59 (Michigan highway), a Michigan state highway near Detroit
- "Meridian 59", an online game
- M59/85, a Yugoslav modification of Stahlhelm that eventually replaced the latter