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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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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