NGC 895
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 21 36.20
- Declination
- −5 ° 31 ′ 13.00 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007635±0.000017
- Distance
- 98 Mly (30.15 M pc )
- Type
- SA(s)cd
- Size
- 85,500 ly
- Apparent size v
- 3.236′ × 2.188′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Has part
- NGC 894
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 31
- Image
- NGC 0895 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Scd
- Commons category
- NGC 895
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-10
- catalog code
- LEDA 8974
- apparent magnitude
- 11.939
- different from
- NGC 894
- right ascension
- 35.4019583
- declination
- -5.5213944
- radial velocity
- 2285
- redshift
- 0.007635
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 895 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located around 98 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. NGC 895 was discovered November 28, 1856 by R. J. Mitchell. NGC 895 is not known to have much star-formation, and is not known to have an active galactic nuclei.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 895” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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