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M81

07/10/08

Messier 81 (M81, NGC 3031) in Ursa Major is an easy target for amateur astronomers. It has a little dark matter, as its rotation curve was found to fall off in the outer regions; this is in contrast to many galaxies for which the rotation curve increases outward.

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