Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 58 49.8
- Declination
- −35 ° 06 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9,210 km/s
- Type
- S(B)b
- Apparent size v
- 1.2' × 0.6'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 334 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on September 25, 1834 by John Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, round, gradually a little brighter middle, 2 stars of 11th magnitude to south."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 334” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.