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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Triangulum
Right ascension
01 57 32.70
Declination
+33 ° 12 ′ 33.00 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5171 ± 8 km/s
Distance
225 M ly
Type
E pec
Apparent size v
1.6 x 1.3

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Triangulum
Distance from Earth
72.1
Image
NGC 0750 SDSS.jpg
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epoch
J2000.0
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1784-09-12
redshift
0.017249
catalog code
LEDA 7369
right ascension
29.3864167
apparent magnitude
8.562
galaxy morphological type
E
Commons category
NGC 750
declination
33.2092361
radial velocity
5130
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 750 is an elliptical galaxy approximately 225 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Triangulum. It forms a close pair of interacting galaxies together with the nearby NGC 751 galaxy. The pair is listed as Arp 166 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (in the category Galaxies with diffuse filaments).

Close pair of interacting galaxies NGC 750 (top) and NGC 751 (bottom) (SDSS)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 750” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.