Messier 59

Messier 59 (also known as NGC 4621 ) is a 9.7 like bright elliptical galaxy with a surface area of 5 ', 4 × 3 ', 7, in the constellation Virgo.

M59 is one of the larger elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, but significantly smaller than the giant M49, M60 and M87. The globular cluster system includes nearly 2,000 globular clusters, ie about ten times the number in our Milky Way galaxy, but only a good tenth of the number in the system of M87. The type of this galaxy in the Hubble sequence is E5, ie the galaxy is quite strongly flattened.

Messier 59 was discovered on 11 April 1779 by the German astronomer Johann Gottfried Koehler.

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