Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 32 52.1
- Declination
- −07 ° 01 ′ 55 ″
- Redshift
- 1876 ± 11 km / s
- Distance
- 67 ±13 Mly (20.6±4.0 Mpc )
- Type
- E+ pec
- Apparent size v
- 3 ′ .2 × 2 ′ .1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 25.12
- Image
- NGC 0596 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- LEDA 5766
- time of discovery or invention
- 1783-12-13
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.006304
- apparent magnitude
- 7.975
- Commons category
- NGC 596
- right ascension
- 23.2162750
- declination
- -7.0315389
- radial velocity
- 1856
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 596 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy lies 65 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 596 is approximately 60,000 light years across. The galaxy shows an outer envelope and is a merger remnant. The surface brightness profile is smooth and featureless. The galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole, whose mass is estimated to be 170 million (10)
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 596” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.