NGC 128
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 29 15.047
- Declination
- +02 ° 51 ′ 50.60 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4363 km/s
- Distance
- 190 Mly (58 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0128 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.014146
- catalog code
- WBL 10
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-12-25
- apparent magnitude
- 10.638
- Commons category
- NGC 128
- right ascension
- 7.3126970
- declination
- 2.8640550
- radial velocity
- 4250
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 128 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is approximately 190 million light-years from the Sun and has a diameter of about 165,000 light-years.
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 128” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.