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Also known as New General Catalogue 155

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.02065
Morphology
E1
Coordinates
RA 8.6670° · Dec -10.7665°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 34 40.113
Declination
−10 ° 45 ′ 59.35 ″
Distance
248.37 ± 41.74 Mly (76.150 ± 12.799 Mpc )
Type
S0 pec
Size
125,600 ly (38,510 pc )
Apparent size v
1.38 ′ × 1.06 ′

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 155 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on September 1, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 155” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.