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Virgo A (M87)


The giant elliptical galaxy Virgo A, is one of the most dominant galaxies in the closest big cluster of galaxies to us, the famous Virgo Cluster (sometimes also called "Coma-Virgo cluster" which is more accurate, as it extends into constellation Coma), at the distance of about 60 million light years.

Virgo A has diameter of 120,000 light years, more than the diameter of our Milky Way's disk. However, as Virgo A is of type E1 or E0, it fills a much larger volume, and thus contains much more stars (and mass) than our Galaxy, certainly several trillion (1,000,000,000,000) solar masses.