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galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 2959 is referenced by 513 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Ursa Major, Ursa Major and epoch.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1831, Discoveries by John Herschel and Intermediate spiral galaxies.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.01482
Morphology
SB
Coordinates
RA 146.2874° · Dec 68.5946°
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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Image
NGC 2959 SDSS.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
SBb/P
catalog code
Gaia DR2 1070116046969046016
redshift
0.014774
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1831-10-28
apparent magnitude
11.791
Commons category
NGC 2959
right ascension
146.28736932106830
declination
68.59455841918370
radial velocity
4410
epoch
J2000.0
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