NGC 137
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 30 58.1
- Declination
- +10 ° 12 ′ 30 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5276 km/s
- Distance
- 236 million ly
- Type
- S0
- Notable features
- Faint, irregular figure, a little brighter middle.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 70.85
- Image
- NGC 0137 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2751417901642242816
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-11-23
- redshift
- 0.017599
- apparent magnitude
- 9.642
- Commons category
- NGC 137
- right ascension
- 7.74200589778750
- declination
- 10.20838907761580
- radial velocity
- 5276
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 137 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by William Herschel on November 23, 1785.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 137” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.