Complex sentence: It and the spiral galaxy NGC 3486 are also almost face-on towards Earth, the latter is of magnitude 11.05 and measures 7.1 by 5.2 arcminutes.
Split into simpler sentences: It and the spiral galaxy NGC 3486 are also almost face-on towards Earth. This latter is magnitude 11.05 and measures 7.1 by 5.2 arcminutes.