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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'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- 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.