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NGC 560
NGC 560
	SDSS image of NGC 560
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 27m 25.434s
Declination	−01° 54′ 46.54″
Redshift	0.018289
Heliocentric radial velocity	5433 km/s
Distance	250.4 ± 17.6 Mly (76.78 ± 5.39 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.0
Characteristics
Type	S00
Other designations
	UGC 1036, MCG +00-04-151, PGC 5430

NGC 560 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be about 250 million light-years from the Milky Way^[3] and has a diameter of approximately 150,000 light years. It is part of the Abell 194 galaxy cluster. NGC 560 was discovered on October 1, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NGC 560". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Results for object NGC 0560 (NGC 560)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
^ Ford, Dominic. "In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 560". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-18.