Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017756
- Morphology
- Sab
- Coordinates
- RA 21.3586° · Dec -1.5506°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 25 26.06364
- Declination
- −01 ° 33 ′ 02.2258 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5276 km/s
- Distance
- 250 Mly (77 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)ab:
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 73.09
- Image
- NGC 0538 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2485399859394889728
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-11-20
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- redshift
- 0.017756
- apparent magnitude
- 10.164
- Commons category
- NGC 538
- right ascension
- 21.35859850896550
- declination
- -1.55061828424560
- radial velocity
- 5276
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 538 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. It is located about 250 million light-years from the Milky Way with a diameter of approximately 95,000 ly. NGC 538 was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1886.
NGC 538 is estimated to be about 2.5 billion years old.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1037209” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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