Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017956
- Morphology
- E
- Coordinates
- RA 36.0232° · Dec 27.3425°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 24 05.546
- Declination
- +27 ° 20 ′ 32.97 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5335 km/s
- Distance
- 234.9 Mly (72.02 Mpc )
- Type
- cE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Aries
- Distance from Earth
- 72.02
- Image
- NGC 0904 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-12-13
- catalog code
- LEDA 9112
- redshift
- 0.017956
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- apparent magnitude
- 10.176
- Commons category
- NGC 904
- right ascension
- 36.0231083
- declination
- 27.3424917
- radial velocity
- 5335
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 904 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be 244 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 904 was discovered on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 904” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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