Right ascension 14 20 19.95 Redshift 0.004240 Type SBab Distance to Earth 65 million light years Constellation Virgo Apparent dimension 1.5′–4.4′ | Declination +03° 56′ 00.9″ Helio radial velocity 1271 ± 14 km/s Apparent size (V) 4.4′ × 1.5′ Magnitude 11.1 Apparent magnitude (V) 11.1 | |
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Similar NGC 5746, NGC 5364, NGC 5577, NGC 4536, NGC 4762 | ||
NGC 5566 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is approximately 65 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.
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