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Q34809
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 09 59.28
- Declination
- −57 ° 01 ′ 15.0 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9465 ± 32 km/s
- Type
- SB0 ? pec
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' x 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brightest cluster galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 130.09
- Image
- NGC 25 DECam.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 25
- catalog code
- APMBGC 149-054+121
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-28
- redshift
- 0.031545
- apparent magnitude
- 9.790
- right ascension
- 2.4970417
- declination
- -57.0208056
- radial velocity
- 9457
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 25 is a barred lenticular galaxy situated in the Phoenix constellation. It was discovered on 28 October 1834 by John Herschel. It is the brightest cluster galaxy for Abell cluster 2731. A possible supernova was discovered in NGC 25 on 15 November 2020.
NGC 25 with DECam
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q34809” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.