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 | | M98 is one of the more difficultly observable galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, although it is situated in constellation Coma. |
 | | In the dense massive Virgo cluster, both infall velocity and close encounters may have summed easily up to a motion of slightly more than 1200 km/sec, and this is apparently pointing in the direction toward us, by chance, resulting in the measure blue shift in the spectrum of this galaxy. |
 | | M98 is nearly edge-on and displays a chaotic, diffuse disk, containing some blue regions of newly formed stars, and a huge quantity of occulting dust, which reddens considerably the light of the central small but bright nucleus. |
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