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Squid in the Whale Spiral galaxy Messier 77, also called the Squid Galaxy, sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale).
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The stars shown in the sky chart belong to faint constellations including Cetus, Aries, Triangulum and Pisces.
—Rod Nerdahl, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
Abell 370 itself is a crowded home to an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies bound together by gravity about 4 billion light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Jacob Turcotte/Staff Today, volunteer wardens with the Cetus Research & Conservation Society Straitwatch program monitor the reserve and gather population data on the whales and their pods.
—Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The stars shown in the sky chart belong to faint constellations including Cetus, Aries, Triangulum and Pisces.
—Rod Nerdahl, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
Abell 370 itself is a crowded home to an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies bound together by gravity about 4 billion light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Jacob Turcotte/Staff Today, volunteer wardens with the Cetus Research & Conservation Society Straitwatch program monitor the reserve and gather population data on the whales and their pods.
—Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
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“Cetus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cetus. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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Cetus
noun
Ce·tus
ˈsēt-əs 
: a group of stars seen above the equator and south of Pisces and Aries
Etymology
Latin, literally, "whale"
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