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NGC 3
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC3 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- Commons category
- NGC 3
- catalog code
- LEDA 565
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-11-29
- apparent magnitude
- 9.975
- redshift
- 0.013009
- right ascension
- 1.8200167
- declination
- 8.3016222
- radial velocity
- 3875
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3 is a lenticular galaxy located 172 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered on November 29, 1864, by Albert Marth.
It has the morphological type of S0. However other sources classify NGC 3 as a barred spiral galaxy as a type of SBa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.