Q904230
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 01 38 18.679
- Declination
- +35 ° 21 ′ 53.47 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,925 km/s
- Distance
- 217.1 Mly (66.55 Mpc )
- Type
- Sa
- Size
- 144,000 ly (44.16 kpc ) ( diameter; D 25 isophote )
- Apparent size v
- 2′.04 × 0′.55
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 66.55
- Image
- A Perfect Spiral with an Explosive Secret.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-10-26
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- catalog code
- LEDA 6059
- apparent magnitude
- 9.733
- Commons category
- NGC 634
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.016485
- right ascension
- 24.5778292
- declination
- 35.3648528
- radial velocity
- 5178
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 634 is a spiral galaxy, lying at a distance of 217.1 megalight-years away from the Milky Way in the northern constellation of Triangulum. This object was discovered on 26 October 1876 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. It is inclined by an angle of 82.4° to the line of sight from the Earth, and thus is being viewed nearly edge on.
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