NGC 60
Spiral Galaxy in the constellation Pisces
NGC 60 is an Sc type spiral galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered on 2 November 1882 by Édouard Stephan.
NGC 60 is noticed for its unusually distorted spiral arms, which are commonly due to gravitational effects of neighboring galaxies, but there are no galaxies around NGC 60 to allow this.
01Supernova
One supernovae has been observed in NGC 60:
- SN 2023zba (Type II-P, mag. 18.8) was discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey on 7 December 2023.
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- NGC60 - SDSS DR14.jpg by Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0
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