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NGC 114
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.012308515112811811
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 6.7426° · Dec -1.7862°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 26 58.22113
- Declination
- −01 ° 47 ′ 10.3429 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4159 km/s
- Distance
- 195 M ly
- Type
- SB0(rs)?
- Size
- 55,000 ly
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 114 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered by American astronomer Truman Henry Safford on September 23, 1867. The galaxy lies approximately 195 million light-years from Earth, and is about 55,000 light-years in diameter, nearly half the size of the Milky Way.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 114” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.