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NGC 755

galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 755 is referenced by 952 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), NGC 241 and NGC 945.

Vinony files it under Barred spiral galaxies, Cetus and NGC objects.

Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation: Cetus
Right ascension: 01 56 22.685
Declination: −09 ° 03 ′ 41.15 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 1641.2 km/s
Distance: 69 Mly (21.3 Mpc )
Absolute magnitude v: − 18.27
Type: SBcd

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: spiral galaxy
Constellation: Cetus
Distance from Earth: 19
Image: NGC 0755 SDSS.jpg

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time of discovery or invention: 1785-01-10
discoverer or inventor: William Herschel
catalog code: LEDA 7262
redshift: 0.005477
galaxy morphological type: SBcd
apparent magnitude: 12.205
Commons category: NGC 755
right ascension: 29.0945208
declination: -9.0614306
radial velocity: 1633
epoch: J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 755 is an emission line spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy's velocity of 1641.2 km/s was used to calculate its distance using the Tully–Fisher relation. Its dark matter halo was found to be core-dominated, in agreement with predictions from the lambda-CDM model of cosmology.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 755” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.