# M81

- By: Ken Crawford
- Date: 2015-02
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/M81/M81.htm
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M81.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/M81.jpg/1920px-M81.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

M81 also known as Bode's Galaxy is around 12 million light years away. It has an irregular satellite galaxy known as Holmberg IX.