NGC 606
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 34 50.14672
- Declination
- +21 ° 25 ′ 06.3712 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9803 km/s
- Distance
- 465.5 ± 32.6 Mly (142.72 ± 10.00 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(r)c
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 470 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1881.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 606: SN 2016fmt (Type II, mag. 17.8) was discovered by the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP) on 28 August 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 606” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.