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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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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3007” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.