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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EmG
Redshift
z = 0.004975812941274027
Morphology
S_AB
Coordinates
RA 147.1482° · Dec 33.4216°
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Key facts

Constellation
Leo Minor
Right ascension
09 48 35.580
Declination
+33 ° 25 ′ 17.83 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1474 km/s
Distance
63.6 Mly (19.50 Mpc )
Type
SBbc

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3003 is a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo Minor, discovered by William Herschel on December 7, 1785. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 11.78, at a distance of 19.5 Mpc from the Sun. It has a recessional velocity of 1474 km/s.

Supernova and luminous blue variable

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3003” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.