NGC 606
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 606 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
Vinony files it under Barred spiral galaxies, Discoveries by Édouard Stephan and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 34 50.14672
- Declination
- +21 ° 25 ′ 06.3712 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9803 km/s
- Distance
- 465.5 ± 32.6 Mly (142.72 ± 10.00 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(r)c
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC 0606 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 288879367185592704
- apparent magnitude
- 10.605
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-10-18
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.033253
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- Commons category
- NGC 606
- right ascension
- 23.70894467396840
- declination
- 21.41843643526410
- radial velocity
- 9803
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 470 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1881.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 606: SN 2016fmt (Type II, mag. 17.8) was discovered by the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP) on 28 August 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 606” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.