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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.013389262781253825
Morphology
SO
Coordinates
RA 39.6335° · Dec 41.5293°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
02 38 32.05009
Declination
+41 ° 31 ′ 45.3471 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3987 km/s
Distance
177.7 Mly (54.49 Mpc )
Type
S0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 995 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 178 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 8 December 1871.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 995” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.