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NGC 101
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 23 54.614
- Declination
- −32 ° 32 ′ 10.34 ″
- Distance
- 149.8 Mly (45.92 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)cd:
- Size
- 119,200 ly (36,560 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 ′ × 2.0 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 45.92
- Image
- NGC 101 ESO.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- Commons category
- NGC 101
- catalog code
- APMBGC 350+030-123
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-25
- redshift
- 0.011341
- apparent magnitude
- 10.199
- right ascension
- 5.9775583
- declination
- -32.5362056
- radial velocity
- 3383
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 101 is a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1834 and its magnitude is 12.8. It is a member of the Southern Supercluster (also called the Laniakea Supercluster) the closest galaxy supercluster to the Local Supercluster.
Notes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 101” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.