
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti and the LEGUS team, R. Chandar
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Spanish Dancer Galaxy
Official catalogue designation: NGC 1566
Your name for it: THE DAVE GALAXY
NGC 1566, known as the Spanish Dancer Galaxy, has two prominent spiral arms threaded with dust and star-forming regions. It is an intermediate spiral in Dorado. This Hubble image reveals its elegant structure in striking detail.
- Galaxy type
- Intermediate spiral
- Distance from Earth
- c. 60 million light-years
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Approximate diameter
- Not established in our reference
- Right ascension
- 04h 20m 00.49s
- Declination
- −54° 56′ 15.28″
Distances and sizes are estimates. Coordinates identify the catalogue object, rather than an exclusive plot of space.
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