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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 05 28.563
Declination
+13 ° 15 ′ 05.88 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7670 km/s
Distance
355.7 ± 25.0 Mly (109.06 ± 7.66 Mpc )
Type
E5

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 810 is an unbarred elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus, approximately 360 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1871.

NGC 810 is currently in a merger event. It is interacting with the galaxy SDSS J020529.28+131503.5.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 810” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.