NGC 1460
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Right ascension
- 03 46 13.7
- Declination
- −36 ° 41 ′ 47 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1373 km/s
- Distance
- 65 Mly (19.9 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude b
- -19.48 ± 0.28
- Type
- SB(rs)0^0
- Mass
- 5.4 × 10 (Stellar mass) /1 × 10 (Total Mass) M ☉
- Size
- ~43,500 ly (13.33 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.7 x 1.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Distance from Earth
- 18.44
- Image
- NGC 1460.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 1460
- catalog code
- FCC 310
- redshift
- 0.004473
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-28
- apparent magnitude
- 9.960
- right ascension
- 56.5572958
- declination
- -36.6963083
- radial velocity
- 1382
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1460 is a barred lenticular galaxy with a peanut-shaped bar approximately 65 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on November 28, 1837. It is a member of the Fornax cluster.
NGC 1460 is host to a nuclear star cluster with an estimated mass of around 6.7 × 10 M☉, and is also host to a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of around 6 × 10 M☉. It is also home to a population of around 39 observed globular clusters. There is also a population of 89 planetary nebulae, with 39 of them being observed in the center of the galaxy and 50 of them being observed in the halo of the galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1460” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.