9. The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83;NGC 5263) Apparent Magnitude 8.0
At number nine on our list of easiest galaxies to see with telescope or binoculars we have Messier 83 that is situated in the eastern section of the constellation of Hydra. Similar in appearance to the famous Pinwheel galaxy (M101), it features well-defined spiral arms, and because of that it’s nicknamed the southern Pinwheel galaxy. M83 is a barred spiral galaxy, and is also a starburst galaxy. Its center is extraordinary, because it features a double nucleus – an illusion that it has two supermassive black holes instead of one. Six supernovas have been observed, and remnants of almost 300 supernovas have been found in M83, so considering that amount of supernova activity, if you are observing it there is probably much bigger chance that you will discover a new supernova than with other galaxies.
