Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Distance
- 1,744 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.034432537766534654
- Coordinates
- RA 21.7992° · Dec -22.7621°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 27 11.80
- Declination
- −22 ° 45 ′ 43.00 ″
- Redshift
- 0.034137 ± 1.50
- Distance
- 479 Mly (147.04 M pc )
- Type
- G
- Size
- 173,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 0.759′ × 0.676′
- Notable features
- Maybe evolving into a ring galaxy(?)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0555 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5042200315975022592
- discoverer or inventor
- Frank Muller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a:r
- apparent magnitude
- 11.365
- right ascension
- 21.79920297179590
- declination
- -22.76204711103820
- radial velocity
- 10145
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 555
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 555 is a lenticular galaxy located around 479 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. NGC 555 was discovered in 1886 by the American astronomer Frank Muller. NGC 555 is not known to have much star formation, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 555” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.