| Z: | 0.002090 |
| Dist Ly: | NaNMpc[1] |
| Type: | SAcd |
| Size: | ~19.32kpc (estimated) |
| Appmag B: | 12.1 |
| Notes: | Warped disk |
NGC 1003 is a spiral galaxy at the western edge of the Perseus constellation. It is located at a distance of about 36 million light years from the Milky Way and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of . This galaxy was discovered by the Anglo-German astronomer William Herschel on October 6, 1784, who described it as "pretty faint, large, extended 90°±, much brighter middle, mottled but not resolved". It is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies.
The morphological class of NGC 1003 is SAcd, which means it is an unbarred spiral galaxy (SA) with somewhat loosely-wound spiral arms (cd). It is inclined by an angle of 70° to the line of sight from the Earth, with the major axis aligned along a position angle of 276°. The visual disk of the galaxy shows a substantial warping in the eastern side, turning it almost face on. The estimated star formation rate is ·yr−1. It has a virial mass of and a mass-to-light ratio of 0.7.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 1003: SN 1937D (type Ia, mag. 12.8)[2] was discovered by Fritz Zwicky on 9 August 1937.