Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 57 50.3
- Declination
- 36 ° 20 ′ 35 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4667 km/s
- Distance
- 230 Mly (70.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~110,000 ly (33 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 × 1.4
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 759 is an elliptical galaxy located 230 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 759 was discovered by astronomer by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 17, 1865. It is a member of Abell 262.
Despite being classified as a radio galaxy, the radio emission in NGC 759 could be due to star formation rather than an active galactic nucleus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1038883” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.