Key facts
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Right ascension
- 21 11 20.1
- Declination
- −64 ° 01 ′ 31 ″ .
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3201 km/s
- Distance
- 138 Mly (42.4 Mpc )
- Type
- (R)SA0^+(r)
- Size
- ~110,000 ly (33.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.7 x 1.8
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Distance from Earth
- 43.49
- Image
- NGC7020 - Iotw2224a.jpg
- Said to be same as
- NGC 7021
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- redshift
- 0.010357
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-06-22
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6449826055683522176
- radial velocity
- 3011
- apparent magnitude
- 8.888
- right ascension
- 317.83351869819250
- declination
- -64.02527632557760
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7020
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7020 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. NGC 7020 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on August 31, 1836.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1149090” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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