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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cancer
Right ascension
8 00 36.7
Declination
22 ° 24 ′ 00 ″
Redshift
0.018366/5506 km/s
Distance
254,300,000 ly
Type
SAB(rs)bc
Size
~87,630 ly (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.07 × 0.98

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2503 is an isolated spiral galaxy approximately 254 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered on February 17, 1865 by astronomer Albert Marth.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2503” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.