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Object Information

Messier 66

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a spiral galaxy which forms a triplet with to other systems, M65 and NGC3628.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar with an Active Nucleus.
Distance: 301,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 581,000,000,000,000,000 km.