Here's a terrific photo that shows the incredible star-forming regions in the disk: http://www.caelumobservatory.com/obs/n1961.html Some sources call it the largest spiral galaxy, one or two called it the largest galaxy, period. But that must be in error, some giant ellipticals would surely dwarf NGC 1961. --- "Don J. Colton" <djcolton@piol.com> wrote:
NGC 1961 was at one time considered to be the largest known spiral galaxy. See http://www.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/ngc1961.html
The link mentions it being large but I am not sure if it still holds the honor of the largest. Anyone know?
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