Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 20 06.7
- Declination
- +03 ° 24 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2325 km/s ±7 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 2398 km/s ±7 km/s
- Distance
- ~100 M ly (~31 M pc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 250,000 ly (diameter)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 474 is an elliptical galaxy about 100 million light years distant in the constellation Pisces. This large galaxy is known to possess tidal shells and tidal tails, although their origins remain unclear. One possible explanation is that NGC 474 interacted with a galaxy several billion years ago.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q428016” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.