Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.00445
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 153.1719° · Dec 3.1294°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Right ascension
- 10 12 41.24591
- Declination
- +03 ° 07 ′ 45.6939 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1242 km/s
- Distance
- 72.67 ± 0.46 Mly (22.28 ± 0.14 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Distance from Earth
- 19.44
- Image
- NGC3156 - Measure of a great galactic disc (potw2337a).jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1329
- catalog code
- SDSS J101241.24+030745.7
- Commons category
- NGC 3156
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-12-13
- apparent magnitude
- 9.548
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- right ascension
- 153.1718579660396
- declination
- 3.12935941787694
- redshift
- 0.003729
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3156 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sextans. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years from Earth and is forming a pair with NGC 3169. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on December 13, 1784.
It is a member of the NGC 3166 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3156” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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