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Messier 87, a Rare card
Messier 87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Ranked #562 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local universe, it has a large population of globular clusters, about 15,000 compared with the 150–200 orbiting the Milky Way, and a jet of energetic plasma that originates at the core and extends at least 1,500 parsecs, traveling at a relativistic speed.
- It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and a popular target for both amateur and professional astronomers.
- The French astronomer Charles Messier discovered M87 in 1781, and cataloged it as a nebula.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Messier 87 article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Messier 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Messier 87 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : en:NASA , en:STScI , en:WikiSky, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.







