Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 53 00.5
- Declination
- −13 ° 44 ′ 19 ″
- Redshift
- 0.005821 ± 0.000022
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,745 ± 7 km / s
- Distance
- 80 ± 20 Mly (24.4 ± 6.3 Mpc )
- Type
- E5
- Apparent size v
- 4.7 ′ × 2.4 ′
- Notable features
- Strong X-rays source
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 24.48
- Image
- NGC 0720 DSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.005724
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-03
- catalog code
- LEDA 6983
- apparent magnitude
- 7.271
- galaxy morphological type
- E5
- Commons category
- NGC 720
- right ascension
- 28.2521792
- declination
- -13.7386806
- radial velocity
- 1763
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 720 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It is located at a distance of about 80 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 720 is about 110,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 3, 1785. The galaxy is included in the Herschel 400 Catalogue. It lies about three and a half degrees south and slightly east from zeta Ceti.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 720” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.