About NGC 970 NED01
NGC 970 NED01 is a trash galaxy. It sits in the constellation Tri.
A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
Trash galaxy 14 EP
NGC 970 NED01
RA 38.5447° · Dec 32.9749° · openngc
Score breakdown
· 1 badgeTrash 15 pts → Common
- Galaxy +14
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Galaxy · +14
Trivia
What it actually is
- What it actually is. A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
Sense of scale
- Scale. Home to hundreds of billions of stars — a universe unto itself, and every one of those points of light could have planets.
Find it in the sky
- Where to look. You'll find it in the constellation Triangulum.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Its colour is a census: blue where gas is still collapsing into hot young stars, yellow-red in the old, settled core.
How we came to know it
- The New General Catalogue. Its NGC number comes from J. L. E. Dreyer's 1888 catalogue, itself built on decades of sky sweeps by William Herschel and his sister Caroline.
Properties
- constellation
- Tri
- dso type
- G
- name
- NGC 970 NED01
- size arcmin
- 0.28
Nearby objects
How to see it
Look for NGC 970 NED01 in the constellation Tri.
Like any astronomical target, NGC 970 NED01 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why NGC 970 NED01 is a trash galaxy
NGC 970 NED01 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 1 science badge — Galaxy — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.