NGC 660 - the polar ring
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NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light years from Earth in the Pisces constellation It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a "late-type lenticular galaxy". It was probably formed when two galaxies collided a billion years ago.[However, it may have first started as a disk galaxy that captured matter from a passing galaxy. (wiki)
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