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Vinony's link graph records 952 inbound references to NGC 880, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

Vinony files it under Cetus, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 18 27.253
Declination
−04 ° 12 ′ 19.44 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
12228 km/s
Distance
586.9 ± 41.1 Mly (179.93 ± 12.61 Mpc )
Type
S?

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Image
NGC 0880 SDSS.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 880
discoverer or inventor
Francis Preserved Leavenworth
time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
catalog code
SDSS J021827.25-041219.4
apparent magnitude
14.511
galaxy morphological type
S/P
right ascension
34.6135560
declination
-4.2054010
radial velocity
12228
redshift
0.041656
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 880 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 590 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 880” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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