Type

Intermediate mass

Location

in the constellation Pisces

Distance

32 million light-years

Mass

10,000 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter about 37,000 miles (60,000 km), a bit larger than the planet Uranus

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk

M74 as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. [Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team]

This document was last modified: January 19, 2006.