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EntityQ1036276· pop 35· linked from 952 articles

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 06 15.8
Declination
−16 ° 32 ′ 34 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
11,242 km/s
Distance
417 million ly (128 mpc )
Type
S0
Apparent size v
0.25' × 0.25'

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 363 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on November 28, 1885 by Francis Leavenworth. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, extremely small, round."

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 363” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.