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Also known as New General Catalogue 128

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.