NGC 2950

id: ngc-2950-181-14079171
title: NGC 2950
text: NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, about 50 million light years from the Milky Way and receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,329 km/s. It was discovered in 1790 by the Anglo-German astronomer William Herschel. NGC 2950 is a field galaxy, it is not part of a galaxy cluster or galaxy group, and thus is gravitationally isolated. Nine certain and four possible dwarf galaxies have been identified around NGC 2950. The morphological classification o
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2950
date created: 2020-05-01T07:51:52Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T13:39:27Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q691726","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q691726"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/NGC_2950_SDSS.jpg","width":1205,"height":894}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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