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NGC 9

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Also known as New General Catalogue 9

spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus

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.