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Spiral Galaxy M10618 viewsDiscovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, M106 is a large bright galaxy located in Canes Venatici. It is one of the closest Seyfert galaxies to us at around 25 million light-years away. Seyfert galaxies have active galactic nuclei thought to powered by supermassive black holes at their centre - sort of a tame quasar! The companion galaxy is NGC 4217. DR
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