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spiral galaxy in the constellation Caelum

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.015029923063672346
Coordinates
RA 68.1739° · Dec -43.7159°
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Key facts

Constellation
Caelum
Right ascension
04 32 41.80
Declination
−43 ° 42 ′ 55.00 ″
Redshift
0.01488±0.000033
Distance
213 Mly (65.58 M pc )
Type
SAB(rs)bc pec?
Size
116,000 ly
Apparent size v
1.905′ × 1′
Notable features
N/A

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1616 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located around 213 million light-years away in the constellation Caelum. NGC 1616 was discovered on October 24, 1835, by the astronomer John Herschel, and its diameter is 116,000 light-years across. NGC 1616 is not known to have much star-formation, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1616” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.