Q737930
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 22 23.76
- Declination
- −00 ° 52 ′ 30.75 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8141 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 336 M ly
- Type
- SBbc
- Apparent size v
- 2.03 x 0.79
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 85.61
- Image
- NGC497 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2533533660959923456
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1882-11-06
- redshift
- 0.026922
- apparent magnitude
- 12.127
- Commons category
- NGC 497
- right ascension
- 20.59906872056770
- declination
- -0.87521286695820
- radial velocity
- 8020
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 497 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 336 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on November 6, 1882.
NGC 497 was imaged by Halton Arp and included in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 8, under the category of 'split arm' galaxies.
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