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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Image
- NGC9 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 9
- catalog code
- LEDA 652
- right ascension
- 2.2279708
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-27
- discoverer or inventor
- Otto Wilhelm von Struve
- apparent magnitude
- 11.784
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.015104
- declination
- 23.8169222
- radial velocity
- 4489
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 9 is a spiral galaxy about 140 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered on 27 September 1865 by Russian astronomer Otto Wilhelm von Struve.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 9” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.