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Q33498
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
Q33498 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor, a region of the night sky visible from Earth. Like other spiral galaxies, it contains billions of stars arranged in rotating spiral arms, making it one of many such structures that astronomers study to understand how galaxies form and evolve.
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 23
- Image
- NGC7 ESO KIDS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 7
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- APMBGC 409-066+005
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 13.9
- redshift
- 0.004990
- right ascension
- 2.08458
- declination
- -29.91694
- radial velocity
- 1495
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NGC 7 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation. It was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel in 1834, who was using an 18.7 inch reflector telescope at the time. Astronomer Steve Gottlieb described the galaxy as faint, albeit large, and edge-on from the perspective of the Milky Way; he also noted how the galaxy could only be observed clearly with peripheral vision, not by looking directly at it.
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