Triangulum Galaxy

spiral galaxy · third-largest in the Local Group

2.73 million light-years from Earth

A loose, flocculent spiral full of giant star-forming regions. On a dark night it is the most distant thing some people can see with the naked eye.

• 2.73 million light-years · ~40 billion stars
• may be a satellite of Andromeda

kind

galaxy

catalogue

M33 · NGC 598