Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 58 49.8
- Declination
- −35 ° 06 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9,210 km/s
- Type
- S(B)b
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.6'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 104.23
- Image
- NGC 334 DECam.png
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- redshift
- 0.030721
- catalog code
- APMBGC 351-093+015
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-25
- apparent magnitude
- 10.884
- right ascension
- 14.7074875
- declination
- -35.1160417
- radial velocity
- 9071
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 334
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 334 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 25, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, round, gradually a little brighter middle, 2 stars of 11th magnitude to south."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 334” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.