Q1043920
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Right ascension
- 04 11 00.90
- Declination
- −56 ° 29 ′ 13.0 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004059 ± 4.30e-5
- Distance
- 57 Mly (17.71 M pc )
- Type
- SB(s)c pec?
- Size
- 42,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 1.905′ × 1.259′
- Notable features
- N/A
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1536 is a peculiar barred spiral galaxy located around 57 million light-years away in the constellation Reticulum. It was discovered on December 4th, 1834 by the English astronomer John Herschel, and it has a diameter around 42,000 light-years. NGC 1536 is not known to have much star-formation, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.
SN 1997D
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