NGC 2715 is an intermediate
spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work ''The Realm of the Nebulae''[Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as alternative for ...]
. It was discovered in 1871 by
Alphonse Borrelly. It is an
intermediate spiral galaxy that is 4.9 arcminutes wide.
SN 1987M, a
supernova
A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...
, was discovered in NGC 2715.
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Intermediate spiral galaxies
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