Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 23 34.09
- Declination
- +26 ° 33 ′ 25.4 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9774 km/s
- Distance
- 458.6 ± 32.1 Mly (140.60 ± 9.85 Mpc )
- Type
- E
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Aries
- Image
- NGC 0901 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-05
- catalog code
- PGC 212967
- apparent magnitude
- 14.8
- galaxy morphological type
- C
- Commons category
- NGC 901
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 901 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be 441 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 50,000 ly. NGC 901 was discovered on September 5, 1864, by Albert Marth.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 901” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.