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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 701 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), NGC 241 and NGC 945.
It is catalogued under topics including Cetus, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 51 03.848
- Declination
- −09 ° 42 ′ 09.32 ″
- Redshift
- 0.006 11 ± 0.000 02
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1 831 .13 ± 5.10
- Distance
- 85.6 Mly (26.25 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 681 Group
- Type
- SBcd
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 19
- Image
- NGC 701 imaged by Legacy Surveys.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1899
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-01-10
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.006101
- galaxy morphological type
- SBcd
- apparent magnitude
- 11.947
- right ascension
- 27.7660333
- catalog code
- LEDA 6826
- declination
- -9.7025889
- Commons category
- NGC 701
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 701 is a spiral galaxy with a high star formation rate in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 86 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 65,000 light years. The object was discovered on January 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
Supernova
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 701” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.