NGC 625
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 01 35 04.6
- Declination
- −41 ° 26 ′ 10 ″
- Redshift
- 396 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 12.7 ± 1.3 Mly (3900 ± 0.4 kpc )
- Type
- SB(s)m?
- Apparent size v
- 5.8 ′ × 1.9 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 4.1
- Image
- NGC 625 GALEX.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 625
- catalog code
- APMBGC 297+110+089
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-09-02
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- redshift
- 0.001351
- galaxy morphological type
- I
- apparent magnitude
- 8.899
- right ascension
- 23.7693000
- declination
- -41.4362000
- radial velocity
- 403
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 625 is a dwarf barred spiral galaxy about 12.7 Mly away in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered on 2 September 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. NGC 625 is a member of the Sculptor Group.
NGC 625 has an active galactic nucleus, i.e. a compact region at the center that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 625” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.