NGC 1616
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Caelum
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015029923063672346
- Coordinates
- RA 68.1739° · Dec -43.7159°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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
via Wikipedia infobox
~1 min read
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.
Available in 29 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0