Triangulum Galaxy
Spiral galaxy in the constellation of Triangulum
Also known as Messier 33 · M33
- Constellation
- Distance from Earth
- 0.8 Mpc
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.72
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- , 6.17
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- , 6.27
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- +4 more
- 5.72
- Galaxy morphological type
- SA(s)cd
- Right ascension
- 23.4621 degree
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- 23.4621 degree
- Declination
- 30.6602 degree
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- 30.6602 degree
Overview
All data
94 statements · 67% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Discovered by
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse applies to part: spiral galaxy · discovered: 1845
- Giovan Battista Hodierna discovered: 1654
- Charles Messier
- Catalog code
- NGC 598 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
- M 33 catalog: Messier object
1
- 1ES 0131+30.3 catalog: Einstein Slew Survey, Version No. 1
1
- RBS 214 catalog: ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue
1
- UGC 1117 catalog: Uppsala General Catalogue
1
- 2MASX J01335090+3039357 catalog: Two Micron All-Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue
1
- 1RXS J013350.9+303932 catalog: 1RXS
1
- UZC J013351.1+303922 catalog: Updated Zwicky Catalog
1
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- PGC 5818 catalog: Principal Galaxies Catalogue
1
- LEDA 5818 catalog: Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
1
- RX J013351+30399 catalog: X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud by ROSAT
1
- Z 0131.0+3024 catalog: Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
1
- Z 502-110 catalog: Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
1
- NGC 598 catalog: New General Catalogue
- Discovered
- 1654
- Radius
- 27,500 ly
- Part of
- Local Group
2
Sources- 1.Stated in The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group
- 2.Stated in SIMBAD
- [CHM2007] LDC 160
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Sources- 1.Stated in Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey
- 2.Stated in SIMBAD
- [TSK2008] 222
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Sources- 1.Stated in Our Peculiar Motion Away from the Local Void
- 2.Stated in Cosmicflows-2: the data
- 3.Stated in SIMBAD
- M31 Group
2
Sources- 1.Stated in The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group
- 2.Stated in SIMBAD
- Local Group
- Radial velocity
- -182 kilometre per second
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Cosmicflows-3
- 2.Stated in The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: The ALFALFA Extragalactic H i Source Catalog
- -182 kilometre per second
- Redshift
- -0.000597
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- -0.000597
- Epoch
- J2000.0
2
Sources- 1.Stated in The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
- 2.Stated in SIMBAD
- J2000.0
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.707 milliarcsecond per year
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- 0.707 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- 0.827 milliarcsecond per year
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- 0.827 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
19 identifiers linking Triangulum Galaxy across the web's reference databases
- BabelNet ID01254113n
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/M33
- Freebase ID/m/01c5pg
- GND ID4241985-2
- Golden ID (archived)Triangulum_Galaxy-8PY6X
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDgalaktika-treugol-nika-1cef7b
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID68996
- J9U entity ID987007542161605171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)triangulum-galaxy
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh2001005850
- New General Catalogue ID598
- Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID5818
- Quora topic IDTriangulum-Galaxy
- ScienceDirect topic IDphysics-and-astronomy/triangulum-galaxy
- SIMBAD IDM 33
- Startrek.com Database IDdatabase_article/triangulum-galaxy
- Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID1712
- Uppsala General Catalogue ID1117
- VIAF cluster ID243527874