Astronomy:NGC 902
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 902 | |
|---|---|
 DECam image of NGC 902 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 02h 22m 21.749s[1] |
| Declination | −16° 40′ 44.73″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.023437[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 6944 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 314.1 ± 22.0 Mly (96.31 ± 6.76 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.82[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBbc[4] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-03-07-005, PGC 9021[2] | |
NGC 902 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 314 million light-years from the Milky Way[3] and has a diameter of approximately 50,000 ly. NGC 902 was discovered on November 28, 1885 by Francis Leavenworth.[5]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 902". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+902.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0902 (NGC 902)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20902&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 902". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20902.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 902". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20902.
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