M65 and M66 - in Leo

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M65 and M66 - in Leo

Messier 65 (M65, NGC 3623), together with its neighbors M66 and NGC
3628, form a conspicuous triplet of galaxies at a distance of about 35
million light years.

M65 is a very typical spiral galaxy with tightly wound spiral arms and
a prominent dust lane.

M66 is rather larger than its neighbour, M65. Its spiral arms are
deformed, probably because of the encounters with its neighbours and
are distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/ten...enge/m6566.htm

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm

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