A barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way.
This Galaxies are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a starburst phase.
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth
The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus.
This Galaxy is a Seyfert galaxy in the constellation of Circinus. It is located 4 degrees below the Galactic plane, and, at a distance of 4.0 Mpc.
This galaxy also known asCigar is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.