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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.02328
Morphology
Sc
Coordinates
RA 29.6706° · Dec 0.5292°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 58 40.953
Declination
+00 ° 31 ′ 45.17 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6916 km/s
Distance
260.3 Mly (79.80 Mpc )
Type
SB(r)bc:

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 768 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 314 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 768” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.