NGC 707
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 77
- Image
- NGC 0707 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Wilhelm Tempel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1879-11-13
- catalog code
- LEDA 6861
- apparent magnitude
- 12.701
- galaxy morphological type
- -3
- Commons category
- NGC 707
- right ascension
- 27.8628625
- declination
- -8.5053694
- radial velocity
- 5330
- redshift
- 0.01795
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 707 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 246 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on November 13, 1879.
References
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