PGC 29820

Galaxy located in the constellation Sextans

PGC 29820 is a spiral galaxy 600 million light-years from the Solar System, in the Sextans constellation. The galaxy is about 120,000 light-years in diameter and is a member of Abell 957, a low-mass galaxy cluster. The first known reference to this galaxy is from volume I of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961, where it was listed as CGCG 008-077.