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29 more points to reach Mythic.
Triangulum Galaxy is an anomaly galaxy. It sits in the constellation Tri and shines at apparent magnitude 5.79.
A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
Look for Triangulum Galaxy in the constellation Tri. At apparent magnitude 5.79, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Triangulum Galaxy is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Triangulum Galaxy scores 91 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 29 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Galaxy, Messier object, Bright deep-sky object, Has a proper name, Spiral galaxy, Bigger on the sky than the full Moon, Coming towards us and The Triangulum Galaxy — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.