NGC 670
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 01 47 24.846
- Declination
- +27 ° 53 ′ 08.54 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3703 km/s
- Distance
- 162.8 Mly (49.92 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 49.92
- Image
- NGC 0670 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-10-26
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 233
- redshift
- 0.012352
- apparent magnitude
- 9.450
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 670
- right ascension
- 26.8535250
- declination
- 27.8857056
- radial velocity
- 3703
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 670 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Triangulum constellation about 165 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1786.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 670” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.