NGC 905

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NGC 905
NGC905 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 905
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 02h 22m 43.574s [1]
Declination −08° 43′ 08.46″ [1]
Redshift 0.04551 [1]
Helio radial velocity 13333 km/s [1]
Distance 644.8 ± 45.2  Mly (197.70 ± 13.85  Mpc) [2]
Apparent magnitude  (B)15.70 [3]
Characteristics
Type S0-a [3]
Other designations
PGC 9038 [1]

NGC 905 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus in the constellation Cetus south. It is estimated to be 644 million light-years [2] from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 905 was discovered by astronomer Francis Leavenworth. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "NGC 905". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  2. 1 2 "Results for object NGC 0905 (NGC 905)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. 1 2 "Search specification: NGC 905". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 905 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  5. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 905". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.


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