NGC 4622 (Backward Galaxy)

Author(s): Selden Ball

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The Backward Galaxy (also known as NGC 4622) is an Sa-type spiral galaxy around 207 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. It is notable for being the first galaxy known to rotate in the retrograde direction


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