Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 48 01.510
- Declination
- +08 ° 17 ′ 49.45 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5274 km/s
- Distance
- 219.64 ± 34.73 Mly (67.343 ± 10.649 Mpc )
- Type
- Scd?
- Size
- 141,000 ly (43,100 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 3.0 ′ × 2.5 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 257 is a spiral galaxy in the Pisces constellation. It was discovered on December 29, 1790, by Frederick William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035908” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.