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Sunflower Galaxy
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The Sunflower Galaxy, catalogued as Messier 63, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Mechain and confirmed by his colleague Charles Messier on 14 June 1779. In the mid-19th century the Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structure within the galaxy, making it one of the first galaxies in which such structure was ever recognized.
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