Key facts
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Right ascension
- 21 24 58.7
- Declination
- −42 ° 27 ′ 38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,385 km/s
- Distance
- 230.1 Mly
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 x 1.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7057 is an elliptical galaxy located about 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Microscopium. NGC 7057 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on September 2, 1836.
Group membership
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q665988” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.