Sculptor Galaxy

spiral galaxy

AI overview

The Sculptor Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located relatively nearby in our cosmic neighborhood, making it one of the galaxies we can study in detail from Earth. Observing spiral galaxies like this one helps astronomers understand how galaxies form, evolve, and behave across the universe.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Sculptor Galaxy is referenced by 957 other articles, and connects out to Antennae Galaxies, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and light-year.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1783, Caldwell objects and Discoveries by Caroline Herschel.

Its subject is documented across 53 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation: Sculptor
Right ascension: 00 47 33.13
Declination: −25 ° 17 ′ 17.1 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 242 ± 1 km/s
Distance: 11.4 ± 0.7 Mly , (3.5 ± 0.2 Mpc )
Type: SAB(s)c
Size: 36.96 kiloparsecs (120,500 light-years ), (diameter; D 27 isophote )
Apparent size v: 27′.5 × 6′.8

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Wikidata facts

Constellation: Sculptor
Distance from Earth: 3.0
Image: NGC 253 Galaxy.jpg

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discoverer or inventor: Caroline Herschel
catalog code: 3FGL J0047.5-2516
Commons category: NGC 253
galaxy morphological type: Sc
time of discovery or invention: 1783-09-23
redshift: 0.000817
epoch: J2000.0
apparent magnitude: 3.772
right ascension: 11.8880583
declination: -25.2888000
radial velocity: 245

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Encyclopedic overview

The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.

Observation

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