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NGC 60

spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ50654 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Supernova

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.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “NGC 60” is spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through spiral, galaxy and constellation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, spiral, galaxy and constellation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50654. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1882 and 2023.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow NGC 60 primary sources, NGC 60 archive and spiral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “NGC 60” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.