NGC 3007

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NGC 3007
NGC 3007 legacy dr10.jpg
legacy surveys image of NGC 3007
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Sextans
Right ascension 09h 47m 45.620s [1]
Declination −06° 26 17.40 [1]
Redshift 0.02175 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 6520 km/s [1]
Distance 330.3 ± 23.2  Mly (101.27 ± 7.11  Mpc) [1]
Apparent magnitude  (B)14.41 [2]
Characteristics
Type S0/a [1]
Other designations
IRAS 09452-0612, MCG -01-25-038, PGC 28150

NGC 3007 is an edge-on, magnitude 13.4, lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sextans, [3] discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on March 16, 1885. [4] It is about 115 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of 6,520 kilometers per second, is at a distance of over 300 million light-years from the Sun. [4]

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References

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