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NGC 3156

galaxy

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Vinony's link graph records 400 inbound references to NGC 3156, and connects out to NGC 3576, Sextans and epoch.

Vinony files it under Lenticular galaxies, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: GiG
Redshift: z = 0.00445
Morphology: SA
Coordinates: RA 153.1719° · Dec 3.1294°

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Key facts

Constellation: Sextans
Right ascension: 10 12 41.24591
Declination: +03 ° 07 ′ 45.6939 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 1242 km/s
Distance: 72.67 ± 0.46 Mly (22.28 ± 0.14 Mpc )
Type: S0

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: lenticular galaxy
Constellation: Sextans
Distance from Earth: 19.44
Image: NGC3156 - Measure of a great galactic disc (potw2337a).jpg

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radial velocity: 1329
catalog code: SDSS J101241.24+030745.7
Commons category: NGC 3156
discoverer or inventor: William Herschel
time of discovery or invention: 1784-12-13
apparent magnitude: 9.548
epoch: J2000.0
galaxy morphological type: S0
right ascension: 153.1718579660396
declination: 3.12935941787694
redshift: 0.003729

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3156 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sextans. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years from Earth and is forming a pair with NGC 3169. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on December 13, 1784.

It is a member of the NGC 3166 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3156” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.