Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Redshift
- z = 0.03269595261132287
- Coordinates
- RA 38.5487° · Dec 32.9773°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 34 11.69897
- Declination
- +32 ° 58 ′ 38.3137 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9642 km/s
- Distance
- 471.4 Mly (144.54 Mpc )
- Type
- S:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Image
- NGC 0970 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 134234087531958528
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-09-14
- apparent magnitude
- 11.325
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 38.54874570251950
- declination
- 32.97730936483740
- radial velocity
- 9802
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 970
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 970 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 471 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 100,000 ly. The object was discovered on September 14, 1850, by Bindon Blood Stoney.
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