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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Distance
101,291 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.03291721871003239
Morphology
SO
Coordinates
RA 35.8841° · Dec 26.5116°
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Key facts

Constellation
Aries
Right ascension
02 23 32.18058
Declination
+26 ° 30 ′ 41.6759 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
9596 km/s
Distance
428.1 Mly (131.25 Mpc )
Type
S0

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Aries
Distance from Earth
131.25
Image
NGC 0900 SDSS.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Albert Marth
time of discovery or invention
1864-09-05
apparent magnitude
10.617
galaxy morphological type
S0
catalog code
Gaia DR2 103440683847411456
Commons category
NGC 900
right ascension
35.88408574658860
declination
26.51157664915730
radial velocity
9755
redshift
0.032517
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 900 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 430 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German astronomer Albert Marth in 1864.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 900” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.