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Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 54 53.48
- Declination
- −37 ° 41 ′ 03.8 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 144 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 6.07 ± 0.23 Mly (1.86 ± 0.07 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)d
- Mass
- (2.9 ± 0.2) × 10 M ☉
- Size
- 55,200 ly (16.92 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 21.9′ × 15.5′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 2.4
- Image
- Phot-18a-02-hires.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5001350950743544192
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- NGC 300
- Commons category
- NGC 300
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-08-05
- apparent magnitude
- 6.379
- radial velocity
- 146.0
- right ascension
- 13.72269169410680
- declination
- -37.68421748962970
- redshift
- 0.000480
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NGC 300 (also known as Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on 5 August 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. It is one of the closest galaxies to the Local Group, and it most likely lies between the latter and the Sculptor Group. It is the brightest of the five main spirals in the direction of the Sculptor Group. It is inclined at an angle of 42° when viewed from Earth and shares many characteristics of the Triangulum Galaxy. It is about 94,000 light-years in diameter, somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, and has an estimated mass of (2.9 ± 0.2) × 10 M☉.
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