Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 38 17.86
- Declination
- −22 ° 55 ′ 44.1 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 14010 km/s
- Distance
- 661.7 ± 46.4 Mly (202.88 ± 14.22 Mpc )
- Type
- Sb(s)ab HII
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 635 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus about 626 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 635 was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1885. It is also known as MCG-04-05-002 or PGC 6062, although in SIMBAD its New General Catalogue designation is not recognized.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 635” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.