Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 37 25.491
- Declination
- +21 ° 06 ′ 03.04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4098 km/s
- Distance
- 188.1 ± 13.2 Mly (57.67 ± 4.04 Mpc )
- Type
- SBc
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 60.26
- Image
- NGC992 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-09-06
- catalog code
- [DC78] UGC 2103
- right ascension
- 39.3562125
- apparent magnitude
- 9.797
- galaxy morphological type
- S:
- Commons category
- NGC 992
- declination
- 21.1008444
- radial velocity
- 4150
- redshift
- 0.013813
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NGC 992 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation and is estimated to be 188 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 992 was discovered by astronomers Lewis A. Swift on September 6, 1886.
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