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Vinony's link graph records 150 inbound references to NGC 7626, and connects out to Milky Way, light-year and constellation.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1785, Discoveries by William Herschel and Elliptical galaxies.
Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 23 20 42.5
- Declination
- +08 ° 13 ′ 01 ″
- Distance
- ~160 million
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 2.6′ × 1.8′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical radio source
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 46.59
- Image
- NGC7626 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-26
- redshift
- 0.011418
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- apparent magnitude
- 8.032
- catalog code
- [DC78] UGC 12531
- radial velocity
- 3390
- Commons category
- NGC 7626
- right ascension
- 350.1771833
- declination
- 8.2170639
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7626 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on September 26, 1785, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
The galaxy lies at a distance of approximately 160 million light-years from the Milky Way, based on its redshift. NGC 7626 is classified as a normal elliptical galaxy and is a prominent member of the Pegasus I Group, a small galaxy group dominated by early-type galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7626” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.