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Messier Gallery
M109 (NGC 3992), an 11th-magnitude barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.
This galaxy lies less than one degree from the 2nd magnitude star Phecda, or Gamma Ursae Majoris (the third star from the front of the Big Dipper's bowl).
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