Title:[0520] Messier 100 and its dwarf companions Caption:From the same plates that were used to make AAT 58, a deeper picture has been created to show much fainter galaxies. In the image enhancement process, the brighter details of M100 and the nucleated dwarf galaxy have been lost, but this wider view now shows many other small galaxies, one of which seems to be involved with the faint outskirts of the large spiral. The somewhat distorted shape of the dwarf galaxy suggests it could be both influencing and being influenced by M100, and may be the cause of the asymmetry in the spiral arms seen in AAT 58. Nearby is an even fainter, elongated dwarf galaxy and elsewhere in the picture are several others. Copyright:(c) 1992 Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, photograph by David Malin Credit:

Title:[3078] Part of the spiral galaxy M100 (HST) Caption:M100, a face-on spiral galaxy in the Virgo cluster, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on 31 December 1993. Copyright: Credit:J. Trauger and NASA