Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Distance
- 4,499 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.01681830167989083
- Coordinates
- RA 36.0037° · Dec 27.3564°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 24 00.89555
- Declination
- +27 ° 21 ′ 23.1264 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5000 km/s
- Distance
- 231.0 ± 16.2 Mly (70.83 ± 4.97 Mpc )
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- NGC903 - NGC904 - SDSS DR14.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-12-13
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 106598962278866944
- apparent magnitude
- 11.877
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 903
- right ascension
- 36.00373147103610
- declination
- 27.35642400190380
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NGC 903 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be about 230 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 35,000 ly. NGC 903 was discovered on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan.
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