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NGC 53
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana
Key facts
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Right ascension
- 00 14 41.8
- Declination
- −60 ° 19 ′ 39 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015237 ± 0.000087
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4570 km/s
- Distance
- 200,000,000 ly (65,000,000 Parsecs )
- Type
- (R)SB(r)ab
- Size
- 120,000 light years
- Apparent size v
- 1.698′ × 1.047′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance from Earth
- 70.98
- Image
- NGC 53 DECam.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 53
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4905747486994317440
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- redshift
- 0.015237
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-09-15
- apparent magnitude
- 10.021
- right ascension
- 3.67859385688510
- declination
- -60.32838536549180
- radial velocity
- 4547
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 53 is a ringed barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered by John Herschel on 15 September 1836. He described it as "very faint, small, extended". The galaxy is approximately 120,000 light-years across, making it about as large as the Milky Way.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 53” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.