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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 703 is referenced by 984 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Abell 262, Andromeda (constellation) and Astronomical objects discovered in 1786.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 39.6
- Declination
- 36 ° 10 ′ 17 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5580 km/s
- Distance
- 240 Mly (73 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- S0^-
- Size
- ~82,000 ly (25 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.9
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 75.34
- Image
- NGC 0703 DSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 342300995047663360
- redshift
- 0.015851
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.884
- Commons category
- NGC 703
- right ascension
- 28.16494673712490
- declination
- 36.17136337540720
- radial velocity
- 4984
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 703 is a lenticular galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786 and is also a member of Abell 262.
NGC 703 is classified as a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 703” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.