Light-year and Messier 66

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Difference between Light-year and Messier 66

Light-year vs. Messier 66

The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.5 trillion kilometres or 5.9 trillion miles. Messier 66 (also known as NGC 3627) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 36 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.

Similarities between Light-year and Messier 66

Light-year and Messier 66 have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Epoch (astronomy), Messier object, Parsec, Spiral galaxy.

Epoch (astronomy)

In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as the celestial coordinates or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, because these are subject to perturbations and vary with time.

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Messier object

The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects, of which 103 were included in lists published by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771 and 1781.

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Parsec

The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System.

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Spiral galaxy

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae(pp. 124–151) and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence.

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What Light-year and Messier 66 have in common
What are the similarities between Light-year and Messier 66

Light-year and Messier 66 Comparison

Light-year has 100 relations, while Messier 66 has 32. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 3.03% = 4 / (100 + 32).

References

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