NGC 903

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NGC 903
NGC 903 NGC 904 legacy dr9.jpg
legacy surveys image of NGC 903 (right) and NGC 904
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Aries
Right ascension 02h 24m 00.89555s [1]
Declination +27° 21′ 23.1264″ [1]
Redshift 0.01682 [2]
Helio radial velocity 5000 km/s [2]
Distance 231.0 ± 16.2  Mly (70.83 ± 4.97  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)16.71 [4]
Other designations
PGC 9097 [2]

NGC 903 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be about 230 million light-years from the Milky Way [3] and has a diameter of approximately 35,000 ly. NGC 903 was discovered on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan. [5] [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "NGC 903". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. 1 2 "Results for object NGC 0903 (NGC 903)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. ↑ "Search specification: NGC 903". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 903 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  6. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 903". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.


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