Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01535
- Morphology
- E
- Coordinates
- RA 124.7535° · Dec 20.9370°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Right ascension
- 08 19 00
- Declination
- +20 ° 56 ′ 13 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015421±0.000033
- Distance
- 232 Mly (71.31 M pc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 72,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 0.617′ × 0.398′
- Notable features
- Almost Edge-on(?)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Image
- NGC 2556 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 675748477655092096
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-02-17
- redshift
- 0.015461
- apparent magnitude
- 11.212
- Commons category
- NGC 2556
- right ascension
- 124.75354732634860
- declination
- 20.93696318544450
- radial velocity
- 4587
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2556 is a lenticular galaxy located around 232 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. NGC 2556 can be visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres since it is near the celestial equator. NGC 2556 was discovered on February 17, 1865 by the astronomer Albert Marth, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.
Galaxy group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2556” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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