NGC 575
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Distance
- 4,676 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.010505745432508595
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 22.6944° · Dec 21.4404°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 30 46.6
- Declination
- +21 ° 26 ′ 26 ″
- Redshift
- 0.010434 ± 0.000017
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3128 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 145 ± 10 kly (44.4 ± 3.1 kpc ) h , 0.73
- Type
- SB(rs)c
- Apparent size v
- 1.7 × 1.6 arcseconds
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0575 SDSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 575
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 288712413216881792
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-10-17
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.010434
- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- apparent magnitude
- 10.394
- right ascension
- 22.69435995403550
- declination
- 21.44043293891510
- radial velocity
- 3132
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 575 is a barred spiral galaxy of Hubble type SB(rs)c in the constellation Pisces. It is approximately 145 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 light years.
The object was discovered on October 17, 1876, by Édouard Stephan (listed as NGC 575) and on January 18, 1896, by Stéphane Javelle (listed as IC 1710).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 575” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.