Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 10 46 36.845
- Declination
- +63 ° 13 ′ 25.10 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1009 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 59 Mly (18 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)c
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 18
- Image
- NGC 3359 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- [VDD93] 121
- Commons category
- NGC 3359
- time of discovery or invention
- 1793-11-28
- apparent magnitude
- 11.304
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- redshift
- 0.003373
- right ascension
- 161.6535208
- declination
- 63.2236389
- radial velocity
- 1009
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NGC 3359 is a barred spiral galaxy located 59 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered on November 28, 1793, by the astronomer William Herschel. The central bar is approximately 500 million years old.
NGC 3359 is "devouring" the much smaller galaxy, nicknamed the Little Cub.
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