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EntityQ961685· pop 30

galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.01629
Morphology
S_AB
Coordinates
RA 124.9662° · Dec 20.9850°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cancer
Right ascension
08 19 51.893
Declination
+20 ° 56 ′ 5.94 ″
Distance
230 Mly (70.77 M pc )
Group or cluster
NGC 2563 (LGG 158)
Type
S0-a

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2560 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer. It was discovered on March 17 1862 by Heinrich d'Arrest.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2560” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.