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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Taurus
Right ascension
04h 40m 09.8s
Declination
+07° 20′ 20″
Distance
64.21 Mpc (209,400,000 ly) ± 4.51 Mpc
Type
Lenticular galaxy
Size
0.4′ × 0.3′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Taurus
Distance from Earth
59.91
Image
NGC 1634 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 15775
declination
7.33874756774630
galaxy morphological type
E
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1798-12-09
apparent magnitude
10.471
right ascension
70.04075491206770
redshift
0.014710
radial velocity
4411
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 1634
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1634 is a small lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Taurus. It was discovered by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel in 1798.

Characteristics

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1634” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.