Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017255
- Morphology
- E3
- Coordinates
- RA 40.8127° · Dec 32.4250°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 43 15.05
- Declination
- +32 ° 25 ′ 29.90 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5190 ± 22 km/s
- Distance
- 256 M ly
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 2.3 x 1.7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 69.96
- Image
- NGC 1060 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 10302
- Commons category
- NGC 1060
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-12
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.017312
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.574
- radial velocity
- 5128
- right ascension
- 40.8126875
- declination
- 32.4250111
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1060 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 256 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Triangulum. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 12, 1784.
NGC 1060 is the brightest member of the galaxy group LGG 72, which contains approximately 15 galaxies. Intergalactic medium (IGM) in this system is highly disturbed, with separate X-ray peaks centred on the two main galaxies of the group, NGC 1060 and NGC 1066. A ~250 kpc arc of hot gas is linking these two galaxies. The system appears to be undergoing a merger, which may have triggered the nuclear activity in NGC 1060.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1041214” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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