Key facts
- Constellation
- Antlia
- Right ascension
- 10 29 06.39496
- Declination
- −35 ° 35 ′ 42.4860 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2349 km/s
- Distance
- 108.0 Mly (33.11 Mpc )
- Type
- E pec:
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3260 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about 40.7 megaparsecs (132.7 million light-years) away. It was discovered on May 2, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3260” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.