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Also known as New General Catalogue 66

spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 19 04.94039
Declination
−22 ° 56 ′ 10.8306 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7509 km/s
Distance
286.69 ± 0.65 Mly (87.90 ± 0.20 Mpc )
Type
SB(r)b pec

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 66 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Frank Muller in 1886, and is located in the Cetus constellation.

PanSTARRS view of NGC 66 and NGC 65

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q522852” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.