Also known as New General Catalogue 171, New General Catalogue 175
galaxy in the constellation Cetus
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NGC 171 is a barred spiral galaxy with an apparent magnitude of 12, located around 200 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy has two main medium-wound arms, with a few minor arms, and a fairly bright nucleus and bulge. It was discovered on 20 October 1784 by William Herschel. It is also known as NGC 175.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).