Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 25 50.7648
- Declination
- +18 ° 29 ′ 46.987 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1510 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 20.6±1.5 mpc
- Type
- SAB(rs)c
- Size
- ~70,500 ly (21.63 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.5′ × 2.0′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 16
- Image
- NGC 0918 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1831-00-00
- catalog code
- [DML87] 591
- redshift
- 0.005030
- apparent magnitude
- 14.202
- galaxy morphological type
- SAB(rs)c?
- Commons category
- NGC 918
- right ascension
- 36.46162958454083
- declination
- 18.49621781532194
- radial velocity
- 1504
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NGC 918 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries, about 67 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by John Herschel on Jan 11, 1831.
The brightness class of NGC 918 is III and it has a broad line of neutral hydrogen. NGC 918 is also an active nucleus galaxy (AGN). Moreover, it is a field galaxy which does not belong to a cluster or group and is therefore gravitationally isolated.
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