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Q50654
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 15 58.28
- Declination
- −00 ° 18 ′ 12.7 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11,827 ± 27 km/s
- Distance
- ~500 M ly , (Redshift-based)
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 1'.30 × 1'.20
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active galactic nucleus
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC60 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2545225146055986304
- Commons category
- NGC 60
- time of discovery or invention
- 1882-11-02
- redshift
- 0.039381
- apparent magnitude
- 13.610
- radial velocity
- 11579
- galaxy morphological type
- 6
- right ascension
- 3.99268740962530
- declination
- -0.30352530019550
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 60 is an Sc type spiral galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered on 2 November 1882 by Édouard Stephan.
NGC 60 is noticed for its unusually distorted spiral arms, which are commonly due to gravitational effects of neighboring galaxies, but there are no galaxies around NGC 60 to allow this.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q50654” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.