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	Messier Object 66
		M66, together with its neighbors M65 and NGC 3628, forms a most conspicuous triplet of galaxies, the Leo Triplett or M66 group, located at a distance of about 35 million light years.
		M66 is considerably larger than its neighbor, M65, and has a well developed but not well defined central bulge, and is therefore classified Sb.
		Obviously its spiral arms are deformed, probably because of the encounters with its neighbors.
	www.seds.org /messier/m/m066.html (321 words)

	M66 - NGC3627: Spiral Galaxy
		M66 is a dusty, deformed spiral galaxy, which is is gravitationally associated with M65 and NGC 3628 to form what is known as the Leo Triplet.
		The symmetry of M65 is lacking, and the central bulge not as well defined.
		The spiral arms are distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy, probably due to interactions with its neighbours.
	www.r-clarke.org.uk /messier/m66.htm (124 words)

	More Deep Sky!
		M66 was imaged with a C14 @ f/3.8 on 3/27/00.
		NGC7339(left galaxy) and NGC7332 in the constellation Pegasus.
		NGC4302 is a thin edge-on galaxy with a pronounced equatorial dust lane.
	www.ghg.net /egrafton/universe.htm (2286 words)

	Galaxies
		The Sunflower galaxy M63 is one of the early recognized spiral galaxies, listed by Lord Rosse as one of 14 "spiral nebulae" discovered to 1850.
		The pronounced grand-design spiral galaxy M81 forms a most conspicuous physical pair with its neighbor, M82, and is the brightest and probably dominant galaxy of a nearby group called M81 group.
		NGC 6946 is a rather nearby spiral galaxy, which at one time was suspected to be an outlying member of the Local Group (Hubble 1936).
	www.sitterson.net /fellows/GalaxyPics.htm (2964 words)

	More M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This image of spiral galaxy M66 in constellation Leo was taken with the KPNO 0.9-meter telescope on the nights of December 19th and 20th 2002 UT. The spiral arms of M66 look somewhat distorted, an effect of the gravitational interaction with its neighbors, M65 and NGC 3628.
		M66 is a distorted spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo.
		It is being tugged on by its nearby neighbors M65 and NGC 3628.
	www.seds.org /messier/more/m066_more.html (301 words)

	Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66
		Explanation: Spiral galaxy M66 is largest galaxy in the a group known as the Leo Triplet.
		M66 is somewhat peculiar because of its asymmetric spiral arms.
		Recent research indicates that M66 is unusual in that older stars are thought to heat up the dust in the galaxy's central bulge - a job attributed to young and hot stars in many other galaxies.
	www.astronet.ru:8100 /db/xware/msg/apod/1996-08-10 (178 words)

	Galaxy Hopping Though Leo the Lion
		M66 is to the east and NGC 3628 is to the north-east.
		Both galaxies are visible in the same telescopic field of view along with a third galaxy, NGC 3628.
		At 109X M65 is oval in shape with a bright nucleus; M66 seems a bit brighter than M65 and distinctly brighter than NGC 3628, both of which are in the same field of view; NGC 3628 is very dim with little detail visible and appears oriented south-west to north-east.
	www.fvastro.org /beginners/galaxy_hopping_leo.htm (946 words)

	Spiral Galaxy M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M66 is a very good example of the dynamics that gravitational interaction with other galaxies can produce.
		Nearby, at least in terms of galaxies, are two other island universes, forming a group popularly known as the Leo Triplet.
		The interaction disturbs the delicate structure of the galaxies, warping (and possibly even causing) the spiral arms, and triggers episodes of rapid and widespread star formation.
	www.rc-astro.com /php/displayImage.htm?id=1038 (91 words)

	Spiral Galaxy M66 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spiral Galaxy M66 (also known as Messier Object 66, Messier 66, M66, or NGC 3627) is a spiral galaxy in the Leo constellation.
		M66 forms a conspicuous triplet of galaxies, the Leo Triplett in the M66 Group, along with its neighbors the Spiral Galaxy M65 and the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3628.
		Spiral Galaxy M66 @ SEDS Messier pages (http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m066.html)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/M66 (179 words)

	Newsletter- Nehru Centre
		M 65: Spiral Galaxy M65 (NGC 3623), in Leo in the Leo Triplett; at distance 35,000 kilo-light-year (kly) and it visual brightness 9.3 (mag).
		M 66: Spiral Galaxy M66 (NGC 3627), in Leo in the Leo Triplett at distance 35,000 (kly); and its visual Brightness 8.9 (mag).M66 is larger than its neighbour, M65, and has a well developed but not well defined central bulge.
		M 105: Elliptical Galaxy M105 (NGC 3379), in Leo at distance 38,000 (kly) with visual brightness 9.3 (mag).M105 is the brightest elliptical galaxy in the Leo I or M96 group of galaxies.
	www.nehrucentremumbai.com /newsletter/May03/zodiac_sign.htm (940 words)

	Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66
		The differences between M66's spiral arms and the apparent displacement of its nucleus are all likely caused by the tidal gravitational pull of nearby galaxy neighbor
		Spiral galaxy M66, pictured above, spans about 100,000 light years, lies about 35 million light years distant, and is the largest galaxy in a group including
		Like many spiral galaxies, the long and intricate dust lanes of M66 are seen intertwined with the bright stars and nebulas that light up the spiral arms.
	www.astronet.ru /db/xware/msg/apod/2004-04-07 (123 words)

	Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A magnitude 6.9 star is immediately to the north of M65 and M66.
		Nearby M66 is an Sb-type galaxy in the Hubble scheme.
		M66 is aligned north-south with a 9th magnitude GSC star perched at the northern limit.
	hometown.aol.com /billferris/m6566hop.html (203 words)

	Spiral Galaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each spiral galaxy is classified with a label which gives some indication of its appearance.
		Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer.
		Explanation: NGC 1300 is a large spiral galaxy that appears as a flattened figure eight...
	www.physics-astronomy.com /spiral-galaxy.html (287 words)

	Messier 66 (NGC 3627) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M66 is a dusty spiral galaxy, and is a member of the same compact group of galaxies as M65 and NGC 3628.
		The spiral arms are very easy to see, but seem distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy, probably a result of interactions with its neighbours.
		The green line through the galaxy is the trail of an artificial satellite that crossed the field during the 30 minute exposure of the green-light plate.
	www.aao.gov.au /images/captions/aat062.html (202 words)

	Messier 66 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		M66 as observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the SINGS.
		Messier 66 (also known as NGC 3627) is a barred spiral galaxy about 36 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
		M66 is part of the famous Leo Triplet, a small group of galaxies that also includes M65 and NGC 3628.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spiral_Galaxy_M66 (263 words)

	Leo Trio
		Here is perhaps the most famous grouping of galaxies known, all of which are easy telescopic targets which can often be seen in the same eyepiece field of view.
		M66, also a spiral galaxy, is at the lower right shining at 9.6 mag.
		At left is NGC 3628, a 10.5 mag spiral galaxy seen on-edge from our perspective.
	www.allaboutastro.com /Leotrio.html (182 words)

	Astronomy Picture of the Day 04-07-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Usually density waves of gas, dust, and newly formed stars circle a spiral galaxy's center and create a nearly symmetric galaxy.
		The differences between M66's spiral arms and the apparent displacement of its nucleus are all likely caused by the tidal gravitational pull of nearby galaxy neighbor M65.
		Spiral galaxy M66, pictured above, spans about 100,000 light years, lies about 35 million light years distant, and is the largest galaxy in a group including M65 and NGC 3628 known as the Leo Triplet.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1112816/posts (1836 words)

	Galaxy_Images
		Whirlpool galaxy M51 was one of Charles Messier's
		M66 is a distorted spiral galaxy in the
		This pair of galaxies is in the constellation Pegasus.
	www.kochabobservatory.com /Galaxy_Images.html (477 words)

	The Celestia Motherlode: Extrasolar: Galaxies
		Spiral galaxy in the Leo I galaxy grouping.
		The Pinwheel Galaxy, estimated to be about 27 millionen ly away.
		NGC5033 spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici
	www.celestiamotherlode.net /catalog/galaxies.php (137 words)

	Image of the Day
		The arms of M66 seem to flail about rather than taking on the orderly appearance common to others.
		M66 is part of a group of galaxies known as the Leo Triplet.
		The galaxy M66 is about 35 million light-years away.
	www.space.com /imageoftheday/image_of_day_040127.html (151 words)

	Spiral Galaxy M66 = NGC 3627 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This color-composite CCD image shows the bright early-type spiral galaxy M66 (NGC 3627) in Leo (part of the interacting Leo Triplet with NGC 3623 = M65 and NGC 3628).
		This galaxy shows a distinct inflection or hook in the spiral pattern, perhaps relating to the interaction.
		This color composite is from B and R images (with synthetic V) taken during twilight with a Tektronix 2048x2048 CCD at the 2.1-meter telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory, by Bill Keel and Lisa Frattare.
	www.astr.ua.edu /gifimages/ngc3627.html (175 words)

	THE FIRMAMENT: M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M66, together with its neighbours M65 and NGC 3628, forms a most conspicuous triplet of galaxies, the Leo Triplet or M66 group, located at a distance of about 35 million light years.
		M66 is considerably larger than its neighbour, M65, and has a well developed but not well defined central bulge, and is therefore classified Sb.
		Leo Triplet: M65 - M66 - NGC3628: a Triplet of Galaxies in Leo.
	www.madpc.net /~firmament/images/deep_sky/messier/m66_thumbnails.html (359 words)

	APOD: 2004 April 7 - Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		density waves of gas, dust, and newly formed stars circle a spiral galaxy's center and create a nearly symmetric galaxy.
		Spiral galaxy M66, pictured above, spans about 100,000
		light years distant, and is the largest galaxy in a group including M65 and NGC 3628 known as the Leo Triplet.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap040407.html (130 words)

	A Look at Space: Part 2: Galaxies - single post for printer
		Recent evidence combining ground-based spectroscopy and the sharp Hubble image data surprisingly indicates that the galaxy is likely rotating clockwise in the picture, its outer spiral arms opening outward in the direction of rotation.
		There are further indications that a past collision with a smaller companion galaxy has contributed to this bizarre rotational arrangement of spiral arms, essentially unique among known large spiral galaxies, in NGC 4622."
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	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/single.php?post=733169 (281 words)

	Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M65 and M66 are a pair of bright spiral galaxies in Leo.
		Drop south about 2 degrees to 5.3 magnitude 73 Leonis, then 1 degree east to the galaxies.
		M66 is the brighter of the two but both are easy targets for moderate aperture.
	hometown.aol.com /billferris/m6566.html (246 words)

	M66 (NGC 3627): Spiral Galaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This galaxy, in the constellation of Leo, forms a nice trio with the other galaxies M65 and NGC 3628.
		It is a type Sb spiral some 50,000 l.y.
		The image shows its heavy dust lanes and thick spiral arms.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~uzdl0265/m66_20030327.htm (78 words)

	More M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Sefick's images of M66, taken with a 25-inch Newton and a ST-6 CCD camera.
		Martin Germano took this shot of spiral galaxy M66 in Leo.
		Michael Purcell's image of spiral galaxy M66 in Leo Triplet, taken on December 29, 1995 at 04:26 with his Meade 10-inch f/6.3 SC Telescope and a ST7 CCD camera, exposed 5 minutes.
	www.obspm.fr /messier/more/m066_m2.html (105 words)

	APOD: 2006 September 2 - Dusty Spiral M66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		this stunning view of beautiful spiral galaxy M66, a mere 35 million light-years away.
		About 100 thousand light-years across with striking dust lanes and bright star clusters along sweeping spiral arms, M66 is well known to astronomers as a member of the Leo Triplet of galaxies.
		Gravitational interactions with its neighborhood galaxies have likely influenced the shape of dusty spiral M66.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap060902.html (150 words)

	Recent images - including proof of a colliding galaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not withstanding the lack of high displacement vertical structure, the hurricane eerily models a class of galaxies in which longarms have been gathering in to a tight synch around a lens shaped oval interior with a round central eye
		A wide incise swath breaching horizontally to the left shows where one galaxy is settling in (through) the other whose matter is blue.
		Diffuse canopy material outsweeping to the left and above (and still containing vague outlines of original arms), is the result of smoothing as material of one galaxy has slid over the material of the other galaxy.
	www.cosmicastronomy.com /public_html/recent.htm (1612 words)

	Unusual Spiral Galaxy M66 . Imagen Astronómica del día 960810. Traducción al español del APOD/NASA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spiral galaxy M66 is largest galaxy in the a group known as the Leo Triplet.
		density waves - circle a galactic center and create a symmetric galaxy.
		Recent research indicates that M66 is unusual in that older stars are thought to heat up the dust in the galaxy 's central bulge - a job attributed to young and hot stars in many other galaxies.
	www.astrored.org /astrofotos/apod/index.php/ap960810.html (277 words)

	Leo Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spiral galaxy M66 is at the bottom right, M65 is above right, and NGC 3628 (an edge-on spiral galaxy) is left.
		However, since the galaxies are relatively bright and I had a good long exposures, no noise reduction beyond dark subtraction was necessary here.
		Below: Individual frames of each galaxy at the 20Da's full resolution.
	www.dl-digital.com /astrophoto/leo-trio.html (119 words)

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