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Constellation
Triangulum
Right ascension
02 34 11.69897
Declination
+32 ° 58 ′ 38.3137 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
9642 km/s
Distance
471.4 Mly (144.54 Mpc )
Type
S:

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NGC 0970 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 134234087531958528
time of discovery or invention
1850-09-14
apparent magnitude
11.325
galaxy morphological type
S
right ascension
38.54874570251950
declination
32.97730936483740
radial velocity
9802
Commons category
NGC 970
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NGC 970 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 471 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 100,000 ly. The object was discovered on September 14, 1850, by Bindon Blood Stoney.

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