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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cancer
Image
NGC 2503 DSS.jpg
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declination
22.4000667
catalog code
LEDA 22453
right ascension
120.1526625
discoverer or inventor
Albert Marth
time of discovery or invention
1865-02-17
redshift
0.018366
apparent magnitude
12.913
galaxy morphological type
SABb
Commons category
NGC 2503
radial velocity
5460
epoch
J2000.0
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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.