However, recent distance measurements indicate that the two galaxies actually lie in the foreground.
The galaxies lie within the clumps of dark matter.
However, exact group identification is problematic because this galaxy and others lie in a part of the sky that is relatively crowded.
The galaxy lies within the constellation Sculptor.
Nevertheless, several scientifically interesting galaxies lie within its borders; it has spiral, elliptical, and interacting galaxies.
On the very edge of the galaxy lies the Sargos Sector.
Two more galaxies, M95 and M96, lie east of Regulus, in the same x 7 field as Rho (3.8).
The galaxy lies approximately 6.5 million/14 million light years away, with a redshift of +243/493 km/s.
It is called a chain because, when viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line.
A much fainter galaxy lies nearby.
