NGC 903

NGC 903
legacy surveys image of NGC 903 (right) and NGC 904
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	02^h 24^m 00.89555^s[1]
Declination	+27° 21′ 23.1264″[1]
Redshift	0.01682[2]
Heliocentric 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

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051.
2. "NGC 903". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
3. "Results for object NGC 0903 (NGC 903)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
4. "Search specification: NGC 903". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 903 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 903". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.

External links

• Media related to NGC 903 at Wikimedia Commons