NGC 95
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 22 13.6
- Declination
- +10 ° 29 ′ 30 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5380 km/s
- Distance
- 250 M ly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 12.5 mag
- Type
- SAB(rs)c?pec
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 74.9
- Image
- NGC 0095 SDSS2.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-18
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2754077345392024448
- Commons category
- NGC 95
- redshift
- 0.017946
- right ascension
- 5.55642214909730
- declination
- 10.49158428572550
- radial velocity
- 5383
- apparent magnitude
- 13.19
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
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NGC 95 is a spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered by English astronomer John Fredrick William Herschel on October 18, 1784. The galaxy has several blue spiral arms surrounding a bright yellow nucleus, and is approximately 120,000 light years in diameter, making it only slightly larger than the Milky Way.
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