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
via Wikipedia infobox
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 “NGC 7020” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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