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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 3554 is referenced by 549 other articles, and connects out to NGC 3576, NGC 3977 and list of NGC objects (3001–4000).

Vinony files it under Elliptical galaxies, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
11 10 47.856
Declination
28 ° 39 ′ 36.81 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8574 km/s
Distance
409.6 Mly (125.57 Mpc )
Type
E2

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Distance from Earth
125.57
Image
NGC3552 NGC3553 NGC3554 - SDSS DR14.png
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catalog code
[LO95] 1108+289A
time of discovery or invention
1827-12-24
galaxy morphological type
E2
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
apparent magnitude
13.222
Commons category
NGC 3554
right ascension
167.6994000
declination
28.6602250
redshift
0.029157
radial velocity
8574
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3554 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in December 1827 by John Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3554” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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