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28 more points to reach Anomaly.
Sunflower Galaxy is an epic galaxy. It lies about 23,439,049.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation CVn and shines at apparent magnitude 8.61.
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 Sunflower Galaxy in the constellation CVn. At apparent magnitude 8.61, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, Sunflower 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.
Sunflower Galaxy scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 28 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Galaxy, Outside our galaxy entirely, Messier object, Has a proper name, Spiral galaxy and Big on the sky — 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.