Q278168
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 51 01.8
- Declination
- −07 ° 03 ′ 25 ″
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 1.5'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 29.72
- Image
- NGC274 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 274
- catalog code
- LEDA 2980
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-10
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- apparent magnitude
- 9.190
- redshift
- 0.005837
- right ascension
- 12.75771354998570
- declination
- -7.05700865074210
- radial velocity
- 1867
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 274 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is a pair of galaxies, the other being NGC 275, which it is currently interacting with. It was discovered on September 10, 1785 by William Herschel. It is roughly 120 million light-years away.
NGC 274 and NGC 275 with Hubble Wide Field Camera 3
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