Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
NGC 3109
Dwarf irregular · 4.30 million ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf irregular
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- -26.15957
- Distance from Earth
- 4300000
- Diameter (ly)
- 25000
- RA (deg)
- 150.77865
- Subgroup
- Outlying
- Coordinates
- 10h 03m 06.9s −26° 09′ 34.5″ · NGC 3109 via Sc
Notes
Large enough to have a rotating disc, at the very edge of the Local Group — some analyses put it and its companions outside the group entirely, on their way past.
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