SpazeSpiral galaxy, M33
Triangulum Galaxy
The third-largest galaxy in our Local Group, full of pink star-forming regions.
- Distance
- 2.7 million light years
- Width
- 61,000 light years
- Stars
- ~40 billion
Made of
- Dark matter 90%
- Stars 7%
- Gas and dust 3%
Hundreds of billions of stars in a halo of dark matter
Modelled from rotation curves and star counts