Astronomy:NGC 903
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Short description: Lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aries
| NGC 903 | |
|---|---|
 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]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 903". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+903.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0903 (NGC 903)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20903&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ "Search specification: NGC 903". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20903.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 903 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC903.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 903". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20903.
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