Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 24 47.7
- Declination
- +09 ° 32 ′ 20 ″
- Redshift
- 2403 ± 5 km / s
- Distance
- 86.1 ± 13.7 Mly (26.4 ± 4.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)0+
- Apparent size v
- 2.8 ′ × 2.8 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 32.45
- Image
- A mysterious old spiral (9507435614).jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 524
- catalog code
- LEDA 5222
- galaxy morphological type
- S0-a
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-04
- redshift
- 0.008076
- apparent magnitude
- 7.163
- right ascension
- 21.1987792
- declination
- 9.5387917
- radial velocity
- 2420
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NGC 524 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is at a distance of about 90 million light-years away from Earth. In the central bulge of the galaxy is visible gas forming a spiral structure. It is the largest galaxy in the small NGC 524 group of galaxies, which is associated with NGC 488 and its group. It was discovered by William Herschel on 4 September 1786.
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