NGC 7002

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NGC 7002
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NGC 7002 (top) and NGC 7004 (bottom) with legacy survey
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Indus
Right ascension 21h 03m 44.8s [1]
Declination −49° 01′ 47″ [1]
Redshift 0.024520 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 7351 km/s [1]
Distance 319,349,800 ly
Apparent magnitude  (V)13.46 [1]
Characteristics
Type E1 pec [1]
Apparent size  (V)1.5 × 1.2 [1]
Other designations
ESO 235-43, PGC 66009 [1]

NGC 7002 is a large elliptical galaxy around 320 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Indus. [2] [3] The galaxy was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on September 30, 1834. [4] NGC 7002 is also part of a group of galaxies that contains the nearby galaxy NGC 7004. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 7002. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. ↑ Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 7002 Deep Sky Objects Browser". DSO Browser. Archived from the original on 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  3. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  4. ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 7000 – 7049". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  5. ↑ "NGC 7004". simbad.u-strasbg.fr. Retrieved 2017-06-22.


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