Skip to content
EntityQ1149377· pop 30· linked from 348 articles

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Pegasus
Right ascension
21 26 14.0
Declination
14 ° 10 ′ 55 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5,110 km/s
Distance
213 Mly
Type
S?
Apparent size v
1.0 x 1.0

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Pegasus
Image
NGC 7066 PanSTARRS i.r.g.jpg
Show 11 more facts
redshift
0.017065
catalog code
LEDA 66747
galaxy morphological type
Sb
discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
time of discovery or invention
1886-08-31
apparent magnitude
10.339
right ascension
321.5573750
declination
14.1830417
radial velocity
5072
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 7066

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

NGC 7066 is a spiral galaxy located about 210 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 7066 was discovered by astronomer Lewis Swift on August 31, 1886.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7066” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.