NGC 50
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 14 44.555
- Declination
- −07 ° 20 ′ 42.38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5700 km/s
- Distance
- 257,000,000 ly (75,000,000 pc )
- Type
- E5
- Size
- 170,000
- Apparent size v
- 2.344' x 1.445'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical radio source
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 60.81
- Radius
- 90000
- Image
- NGC 0050 2MASS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 50
- catalog code
- LEDA 983
- redshift
- 0.018329
- discoverer or inventor
- Gaspare Stanislao Ferrari
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.776
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- right ascension
- 3.6856458
- declination
- -7.3451056
- radial velocity
- 5445
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 50 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus with a diameter of 170,000 light-years. It was discovered in 1865 by Gaspare Ferrari. The galaxy is, in comparison to the Milky Way, about 1.5-2 times as large. It is also physically close to NGC 49.
Other names for NGC 50 are MCG -1-1-58 and PGC 983.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 50” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.