NGC 3007

galaxy

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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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Instance of: galaxy
Constellation: Sextans
Distance from Earth: 93.75
Image: NGC 3007 PanS.jpg

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galaxy morphological type: SBb:
redshift: 0.021748
catalog code: 2MASX J09474561-0626173
discoverer or inventor: Édouard Stephan
time of discovery or invention: 1885-03-16
apparent magnitude: 10.118
right ascension: 146.9400792
declination: -6.4381528
radial velocity: 6449
epoch: J2000.0
Commons category: NGC 3007

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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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