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Sc spiral comparison table

Subject	has synonym	has discovery date	has image	has definition	has distance	has discoverer	has Messier number
M 100	NGC 4321	1781			from Earth	Pierre Mechain	100
Pinwheel galaxy	Triangulum galaxy	1654		A Sc II-III spiral galaxy, a satellite of the Andromeda galaxy, about 700 kpc distant. Mv = - 18.9.	800 kpc from Milky Way galaxy	Hodierna	33
Whirlpool galaxy	NGC 5194	1773			from Earth	Charles Messier	51

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