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| giant elliptical galaxy comparison table | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subject | has purpose | has location | has apparent dimension | has material | has classification criteria | is part of | has spectra | has volume | has catalog | has temperature | has number of star | has velocity | has wavelength | is an instance of | has momentum | has apparent magnitude | has synonym | has extent | has mass | has definition | has distance | has angular momentum | has Messier number |
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| M 87 | originally to catalog all objects which could be confused with a comet | or center of gravity | E0 (spherical) to E7 (greatest eccentricity) | celestial sphere | Messier catalog | 106 to 1012 | X-ray | Messier object | Virgo X-1 | 1013 Msun (most massive galaxies known) | A strong radio source. Optically, it is an elliptical galaxy with a luminous blue jet about 1500 pc long. It is also one of the most powerful extragalactic sources of radiation at infrared wavelengths. | from Earth | 87 |
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