Aug 6, 2025
M90 // Samuel Müller
seen from Belgium
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Mexico
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Morocco
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Ukraine
seen from Malaysia
M90 // Samuel Müller
M90 // sydney
Nearby to M90 is an irregular galaxy IC 3583 (right). In this deep image, you can see some of the shells and filamentary structure between the two galaxies. This pairing might be only temporary. M90 is currently moving towards us at about 850,000 mph while IC 3583 is moving away from us at 2.5 million mph.
It is unlikely that they'll remain close together and continue to interact. Instead, they'll only have this brief flirtation.
M90 // Ben Hayes
One of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, M90 has tightly wound spiral arms with very little star formation going on within them. Some people have started calling it an "anemic" galaxy. It might be on its way to becoming similar to the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) before it evolves into a lenticular galaxy.
M90 (center) and the much closer galaxy IC 3583 (left) // Rocco Sung
M90 (upper left) and IC 3583 (right) // John Bozeman