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galaxy

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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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.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 904” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.