Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01 20 06.7
- Declination
- +03 ° 24 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2325 km/s ±7 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 2398 km/s ±7 km/s
- Distance
- ~100 M ly (~31 M pc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 250,000 ly (diameter)
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 32.8
- Image
- Elliptical galaxy NGC 474.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 474
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 4801
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-12-13
- redshift
- 0.007912
- radial velocity
- 2306
- apparent magnitude
- 8.555
- right ascension
- 20.0279000
- declination
- 3.4152694
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NGC 474 is an elliptical galaxy about 100 million light years distant in the constellation Pisces. This large galaxy is known to possess tidal shells and tidal tails, although their origins remain unclear. One possible explanation is that NGC 474 interacted with a galaxy several billion years ago.
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