Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 34 20.1
- Declination
- +32 ° 30 ′ 20 ″
- Redshift
- 0.016195 ± 0.000027
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,855 ± 8 km/s
- Distance
- 195 ± 16 Mly (60.0 ± 4.8 Mpc )
- Type
- Sbc
- Size
- 224,800 ly (68.94 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 4.03 ′ × 0.47 ′
- Notable features
- Seyfert galaxy
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 65.44
- Image
- NGC 0973 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-10-30
- catalog code
- 2MAXI J0233+324
- right ascension
- 38.5837542
- apparent magnitude
- 9.8
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- declination
- 32.5055583
- redshift
- 0.016195
- radial velocity
- 5048
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- NGC 973
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NGC 973 is a giant spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum. It is located at a distance of circa 200 million light-years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 973 is about 230,000 light years across. It was discovered by Lewis Swift on October 30, 1885.
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