NGC 128
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 29 15.047
- Declination
- +02 ° 51 ′ 50.60 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4363 km/s
- Distance
- 190 Mly (58 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 128 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is approximately 190 million light-years from the Sun and has a diameter of about 165,000 light-years.
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 128” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.