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EntityQ1049717· pop 30

galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.01661
Morphology
SAB
Coordinates
RA 124.8032° · Dec 20.5107°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cancer
Right ascension
08 19 12.7681
Declination
+20 ° 30 ′ 38.337 ″
Distance
316 Mly (96.83 M pc )
Group or cluster
NGC 2563 (LGG 158)

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2558 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer. It was discovered on February 13, 1787, by William Herschel.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2558” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.