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Vinony's link graph records 984 inbound references to NGC 708, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), solar mass and epoch.
It is catalogued under topics including Abell 262, Andromeda (constellation) and Astronomical objects discovered in 1786.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 46.4467
- Declination
- +36 ° 09 ′ 06.581 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4762 km/s
- Distance
- 232.05 ± 16.32 Mly (71.147 ± 5.005 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~200,000 ly (62 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.0′ × 2.5′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brightest cluster galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 62.63
- Image
- NGC 0708 DSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- [QZP2008] J015246.5+360908
- apparent magnitude
- 8.574
- Commons category
- NGC 708
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- redshift
- 0.016054
- right ascension
- 28.1936750
- declination
- 36.1518139
- radial velocity
- 5045
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 708 is an elliptical galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786. It is classified as a cD galaxy and is the brightest member of Abell 262. NGC 708 is a weak FR I radio galaxy and is also classified as a type 2 Seyfert galaxy.
NGC 708 is surrounded by 4,700 globular clusters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 708” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.