Q1121082

interacting galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Virgo
Right ascension: 14 20 19.95
Declination: +03 ° 56 ′ 00.9 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 1271 ± 14 km/s
Distance: 66 Mly (20.1 Mpc )
Type: SBab
Apparent size v: 4.4 ′ × 1.5 ′

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Distance from Earth: 20
Image: Arp 286 (NGC 5560, 5566 & 5569) (noao-arp286).jpg

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catalog code: [NKB95] N5566
time of discovery or invention: 1786-04-30
galaxy morphological type: SBab
apparent magnitude: 10.323
declination: 3.9335889
Commons category: NGC 5566
redshift: 0.005027
right ascension: 215.08360
radial velocity: 1601

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NGC 5566 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is approximately 66 million light years away from Earth. The galaxy is the biggest in the constellation Virgo, stretching nearly 150,000 light years in diameter. The galaxy NGC 5566 was discovered on 30 April 1786 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. It is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. It is a member of the NGC 5566 Group of galaxies, itself one of the Virgo III Groups strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.

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