NGC 965

id: ngc-965-277-8257397
title: NGC 965
text: NGC 965 is a spiral galaxy approximately 294 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by American astronomer Ormond Stone in 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory. Soviet/Russian astrophysicist Vorontsov-Velyaminov B. and Arhipova V. P. have noted in their "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies" that NGC 965 "looks almost like two flattened galaxies i=I and i=III in contact and very disturbed".
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description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_965
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date modified: 2023-06-16T17:23:57Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/NGC_965_DECam.jpg","width":443,"height":443}
fields total: 13
integrity: 15

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