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- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01835
- Morphology
- E
- Coordinates
- RA 16.7426° · Dec 32.3084°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 06 58.10
- Declination
- +32 ° 18 ′ 32.0 ″
- Distance
- 204.86 Mly (62.81 M pc )
- Type
- E3
- Size
- 37,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 0.525' x 0.447'
- Notable features
- N/A
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 62.81
- Image
- NGC 0373 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 313533956933681792
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- Republic of Ireland
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-12-12
- apparent magnitude
- 11.581
- Commons category
- NGC 373
- redshift
- 0.01835
- right ascension
- 16.74255469162380
- declination
- 32.30844977354060
- radial velocity
- 5451
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 373 is an elliptical galaxy located around 204 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. NGC 373 was discovered on December 12th, 1876 by John Louis Emil Dreyer. NGC 373 does not contain an active galactic nucleus, and it does not have much star formation.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 373” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.