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Q50649
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 15 07.6
- Declination
- 00 ° 07 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5335 km/s
- Distance
- 240,000,000 ly (78,000,000 Parsecs )
- Type
- SB(r)a
- Size
- 90,000
- Apparent size v
- 1.445' x 0.525'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 54 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1886, and he defined it as "very faint, pretty small, round." The galaxy is 90,000 light years in diameter, making it slightly smaller than the Milky Way.
See also
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