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EntityQ870210· pop 36· linked from 952 articles

Also known as New General Catalogue 161

lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.020521234861485382
Coordinates
RA 8.8914° · Dec -2.8487°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 35 33.941
Declination
−02 ° 50 ′ 55.52 ″
Distance
230 Mly (72 Mpc )
Type
S0
Size
92,100 ly (28,240 pc )
Apparent size v
1.3 ′ × 0.8 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
67.88
Image
NGC161 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Lewis A. Swift
catalog code
LEDA 2131
declination
-2.8487556
time of discovery or invention
1886-11-21
apparent magnitude
9.954
galaxy morphological type
S0
Commons category
NGC 161
redshift
0.020311
right ascension
8.8914208
radial velocity
6089
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 161 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on November 21, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift.

Notes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q870210” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.