The Phantom Galaxy. Peering more than 30 million light-years into deep space, past the Milky Way in the constellation Pisces, we come across a prime example of what’s known as a “grand design spiral.” M74 is an orderly and very structured face-on spiral galaxy. Among the faintest objects in Messier’s famous catalog, it has picked up the “Phantom Galaxy” moniker due to its fleeting nature in visual observations.