NGC 3007 is an edge-on, magnitude 13.4, lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sextans,[3] discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on March 16, 1885.[4] It is about 115 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of 6,520 kilometers per second, is at a distance of over 300 million light-years from the Sun.[4]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Results for object NGC 3007 (NGC 3007)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  2. ^ "Search specification: NGC 3007". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  3. ^ "NGC 3007". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Celestial Atlas". cseligman.com. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3007
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