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Messier 65

spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo
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Summary

Messier 65 is a spiral galaxy[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of spiral galaxy entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (275 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

Why It Matters

Messier 65 has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

Related Entities

Charles Messier

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . VizieR. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . messier.seds.org. Retrieved . messier.seds.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . A catalog of visually classified galaxies in the local (z ~ 0.01) universe. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . SIMBAD. Retrieved . haroldcorwin.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . messier.seds.org. Retrieved . messier.seds.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . SIMBAD. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Q66470551. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . messier.seds.org. Retrieved . messier.seds.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . The Updated Zwicky Catalog (UZC). wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Hunting for supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies with the Hobby-Eberly telescope. wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . Galaxy groups: a 2MASS catalog. wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . A Digital Archive of H I 21 Centimeter Line Spectra of Optically Targeted Galaxies. wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . A search for 'dwarf' Seyfert nuclei. 2: an optical spectral atlas of the nuclei of nearby galaxies. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . General study of group membership. II. Determination of nearby groups. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies. Data for 12,921 galaxies north of delta =-2 30. wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved . adsabs.harvard.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . Cosmicflows-3. wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . From Spitzer Galaxy photometry to Tully-Fisher distances. wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . Cosmicflows-2: the data. wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria. wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . Our Peculiar Motion Away from the Local Void. wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey. wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 54
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'ce', 'co', 'commo
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 22w ago · Phantomdj · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Has part(s) → Q79739120
    Apparent magnitude → {'amount': '+9.3'}, {'amount': '+9.6'}, {'amount': '+6.989'} +2
    Redshift → {'amount': '+0.00254'}, {'amount': '+0.002692'}
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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