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NGC 1019

galaxy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1040941 ↗
Source-derived summary

NGC 1019 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 316 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on December 1, 1880 with the 31" reflecting telescope at the Marseille Observatory.

NGC 1019 is classified as Type I Seyfert galaxy. Its nuclei is surrounded by tight rings or annuli of star formation, and the rings contain compact, young star clusters.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “NGC 1019” is galaxy. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through galaxy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1019, 1880—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, galaxy is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “galaxy” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1040941. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1019 and 1880.

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This entry incorporates text from “NGC 1019” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.