Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 02 31 38.79
- Declination
- −44 ° 31 ′ 27.5 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4738 km/s
- Distance
- 173.19 Mly (53.100 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 52.10
- Image
- NGC 0979 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-18
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4946536825765016576
- redshift
- 0.015930
- apparent magnitude
- 9.630
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- right ascension
- 37.91171239376730
- declination
- -44.52431882829940
- radial velocity
- 4738
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 979
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 979 is a lenticular galaxy located within the constellation of Eridanus. This galaxy has a possible outer ring which is dim but smooth. This structure might be a polar ring. The featurelessness of this galaxy means that it is completely devoid of HII regions and consequently, star formation.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 979” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.