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NGC 584

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Also known as Little Spindle Galaxy

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 31 20.755
Declination
−06 ° 52 ′ 05.02 ″
Distance
62.28 ± 10.84 Mly (19.094 ± 3.323 Mpc )
Type
E4
Apparent size v
2.983' × 1.850'

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
20.14
Image
NGC 584 SDSS2.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0
catalog code
LEDA 5663
time of discovery or invention
1785-09-10
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.006254
apparent magnitude
7.304
Commons category
NGC 584
right ascension
22.8364792
declination
-6.8680611
radial velocity
1833
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 584 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered on 10 September 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.

It is about 20 megaparsecs (60 million light-years) distant. NGC 584 belongs to the NGC 584 galaxy group, which also includes the galaxies NGC 596, NGC 600, NGC 615 and NGC 636.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 584” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.