M87

M87 (for Messier 87, also Virgo A, NGC 4486, Virgo X-1, or UGC 7654) is the second brightest galaxy in the northern Virgo Cluster, about 53 million light-years away. It is a featureless elliptical galaxy, but does have many orbiting globular clusters, and has a relativistic jet, which includes a feature of interest, a bright spot (of varying brightness) designated HST-1. Characteristics:

• Virgo - constellation.
• 12h30m49.42338s - right ascension.
• +12deg23m28.0439s - declination.
• 53.5 million ly - distance.
• E0pec or cD - type.
• 7.2 arcmin - apparent dimension.