NGC 95
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 95 is referenced by 892 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), NGC 96 and NGC 241.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Discoveries by John Herschel and Intermediate spiral galaxies.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 22 13.6
- Declination
- +10 ° 29 ′ 30 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5380 km/s
- Distance
- 250 M ly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 12.5 mag
- Type
- SAB(rs)c?pec
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 74.9
- Image
- NGC 0095 SDSS2.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-18
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2754077345392024448
- Commons category
- NGC 95
- redshift
- 0.017946
- right ascension
- 5.55642214909730
- declination
- 10.49158428572550
- radial velocity
- 5383
- apparent magnitude
- 13.19
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 95 is a spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered by English astronomer John Fredrick William Herschel on October 18, 1784. The galaxy has several blue spiral arms surrounding a bright yellow nucleus, and is approximately 120,000 light years in diameter, making it only slightly larger than the Milky Way.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 95” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.