NGC 359
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 04 16.9
- Declination
- −00 ° 45 ′ 54 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,337 km/s
- Distance
- 238 Mly
- Apparent magnitude v
- 14.3g
- Type
- E0
- Apparent size v
- 1.10' × 0.78'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 359 is an elliptical galaxy located approximately 238 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 2, 1864, by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "extremely faint, very small."
This elliptical galaxy has an extremely long tidal tail and shell structure, seen across several deep-sky surveys, indicating a likely-recent and possibly ongoing interaction with nearby galactic neighbor NGC 364.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 359” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.