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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 31 41.302
Declination
−09 ° 18 ′ 01.01 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4827 km/s
Distance
185.1 Mly (56.75 Mpc )
Type
SABb

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
58.51
Image
NGC 0960 SDSS.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
discoverer or inventor
Francis Preserved Leavenworth
catalog code
LEDA 9621
apparent magnitude
12.600
galaxy morphological type
Sb
Commons category
NGC 960
right ascension
37.9220917
declination
-9.3002806
radial velocity
4916
redshift
0.016398
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 960 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered in 1886 by Francis Preserved Leavenworth.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 960” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.