✺ Triangulum Galaxy

  Triangulum Galaxy is a galaxy in Triangulum.

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  Type            Galaxy
  Constellation   Triangulum
  Magnitude       7.0
  Apparent size   73′ × 45′ (2× the full Moon)
  You need        binoculars

  Known as
  Messier         M33
  Dreyer          NGC 598

  Physical
  Distance        2.7 million light years

  More information about Triangulum Galaxy

  The Triangulum Galaxy is large and diffuse, which makes it a poor target
  for a telescope and a good one for binoculars. Under genuinely dark
  skies some people can see it with the naked eye, which makes it a
  reasonable contender for the furthest thing visible unaided.

  History
  Discovered   1654, Giovanni Battista Hodierna

  Messier was hunting comets. He compiled his list between 1758 and 1781
  as a register of things that look like comets but are not. That's why
  the objects on it have nothing in common beyond being fuzzy and staying
  put.

  Dreyer compiled the New General Catalogue in 1888, mostly from the
  sweeps William and John Herschel made of the sky, and numbered its 7,840
  objects in order of right ascension.

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Triangulum Galaxy