# Messier 61

> Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo

**Wikidata**: [Q13978](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13978)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_61)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/messier-61


## References

1. SIMBAD
2. [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=MESSIER%2061&extend=no)
3. [Source](http://haroldcorwin.net/rc3/rc39b.csv.gz)
4. VizieR
5. [Messier 61](http://www.messier.seds.org/m/m061.html)
6. The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS) III. The ultraviolet source catalogs
7. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
8. Absorption-line detections of 10^5^-10^6^ K gas in spiral-rich groups of galaxies
9. The GALEX Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies
10. Gaia Data Release 2
11. The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
12. The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 7
13. Galaxy groups: a 2MASS catalog
14. [ESO’s Very Large Telescope Focuses on Messier 61](https://www.sci.news/astronomy/muse-image-messier-61-11053.html)
15. The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria