NGC 490

id: ngc-490-304-3648139
title: NGC 490
text: NGC 490, also occasionally referred to as PGC 4973 or GC 277, is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is located approximately 85 million light-years from Earth and was discovered on December 6, 1850, by Irish engineer Bindon Blood Stoney. Although John Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, credits the discovery to astronomer William Parsons, he notes that many of his claimed discoveries were made by one of his assistants. In the case of NGC 490, the discovery was made by
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description: Lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_490
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date modified: 2021-06-27T07:18:15Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q383438","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q383438"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/NGC490_-_SDSS_DR14.jpg","width":800,"height":800}
fields total: 13
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