NGC 120
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 27 30.09072
- Declination
- −01 ° 30 ′ 48.4591 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4057 km/s
- Distance
- 168.0 Mly (51.52 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0 :
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 120 is a lenticular galaxy of type SB0? with an apparent magnitude of 13.4 located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on 27 September 1880 by Wilhelm Tempel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 120” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.