Q698571
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 22 03.211
- Declination
- +22 ° 24 ′ 29.15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5380 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 259.7 ± 68.1 Mly , (79.633 ± 20.875 Mpc )
- Type
- S
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' x 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 72.56
- Image
- NGC93 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 93
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2800700795938118528
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1854-10-26
- apparent magnitude
- 9.633
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.017946
- right ascension
- 5.51345413478870
- declination
- 22.40810803188860
- radial velocity
- 5687
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 93 is an interacting spiral galaxy estimated to be about 260 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by R. J. Mitchell in 1854. The galaxy is currently interacting with NGC 90 and has some signs of interacting with it.
NGC 93 and NGC 90 form the interacting galaxy pair Arp 65.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q698571” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.