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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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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.