Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 4,104 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.016565
- Morphology
- S0
- Coordinates
- RA 14.0251° · Dec 24.1269°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 56 06.0
- Declination
- +24 ° 07 ′ 37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,991 km/s
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1' × 0.7'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 304 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 23, 1878, by Édouard Stephan.
One supernova, SN 2021dnn (type Ia, mag. 15.3), was discovered in NGC 304 on 22 February, 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1036071” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.