Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 57 42.2104
- Declination
- +35 ° 54 ′ 58.262 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4863 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly (67 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc
- Size
- ~148,000 ly (45.39 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.5′ × 1.9′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 753 is a spiral galaxy located 220 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 16, 1865 and is a member of Abell 262.
NGC 753 has roughly 2-3 times more mass than the Milky Way and is classified as a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 753” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.