NGC 3007

galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 3007 is referenced by 400 other articles, and connects out to Q1105445, Sextans and epoch.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1885, Discoveries by Édouard Stephan and IRAS catalogue objects.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: Sy2
Redshift: z = 0.021748
Morphology: SO-a
Coordinates: RA 146.9401° · Dec -6.4382°

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Key facts

Constellation: Sextans
Right ascension: 09 47 45.620
Declination: −06 ° 26 ′ 17.40 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 6520 km/s
Distance: 330.3 ± 23.2 Mly (101.27 ± 7.11 Mpc )
Type: S0/a

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth: 93.75
Image: NGC 3007 PanS.jpg

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galaxy morphological type: SBb:
redshift: 0.021748
catalog code: 2MASX J09474561-0626173
time of discovery or invention: 1885-03-16
apparent magnitude: 10.118
right ascension: 146.9400792
declination: -6.4381528
radial velocity: 6449
Commons category: NGC 3007

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3007 is an edge-on, magnitude 13.4, lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sextans, discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on March 16, 1885. It is about 115 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of 6,520 kilometers per second, is at a distance of over 300 million light-years from the Sun.