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- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 3,956 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.003538704945429405
- Morphology
- S_AB
- Coordinates
- RA 171.1086° · Dec 11.3421°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 24 26
- Declination
- +11 ° 20 ′ 31 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1018 ± 1 km/s
- Type
- SA(rs)c
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 16
- Image
- NGC 3666 hst 09042 49 R814 B450.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 3666
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3915827820995905536
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.535
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- right ascension
- 171.10861704165710
- declination
- 11.34205693212060
- redshift
- 0.00354
- radial velocity
- 1062
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3666 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel on March 15, 1784. It is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q956880” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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