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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.016870526798813845
Coordinates
RA 36.4360° · Dec 41.7994°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
02 25 44.63255
Declination
+41 ° 47 ′ 57.7826 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5015 km/s
Distance
231.0 ± 16.2 Mly (70.84 ± 4.98 Mpc )

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 913 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 224 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1878.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 913” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.