Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.021748
- Morphology
- SO-a
- Coordinates
- RA 146.9401° · Dec -6.4382°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Right ascension
- 09 47 45.620
- Declination
- −06 ° 26 ′ 17.40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6520 km/s
- Distance
- 330.3 ± 23.2 Mly (101.27 ± 7.11 Mpc )
- Type
- S0/a
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3007 is an edge-on, magnitude 13.4, lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sextans, discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on March 16, 1885. It is about 115 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of 6,520 kilometers per second, is at a distance of over 300 million light-years from the Sun.
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