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EntityQ924189· pop 35· linked from 892 articles

galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.015414
Morphology
SO-a
Coordinates
RA 9.6054° · Dec 3.1664°
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Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 38 25.3
Declination
+03 ° 09 ′ 59 ″
Type
SB0 pec:
Apparent size v
1.4' × 0.8'

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 186 is a barred lenticular galaxy located 3.4 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by Bindon Blood Stoney in 1852.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 186” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.