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NGC 141

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Also known as New General Catalogue 141

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 31 17.4
Declination
+05 ° 10 ′ 47 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
11760 km/s
Type
SBab
Notable features
Very faint, very small, irregularly round.

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 141 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. Discovered by Albert Marth on August 29, 1864, it is about 525 million light-years away and is approximately 100,000 light-years across.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 141” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.