Q742543
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 19 37.79033
- Declination
- +29 ° 56 ′ 01.9218 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7323 km/s
- Distance
- 322.9 Mly (99.01 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy group
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 99.01
- Image
- NGC 0076 2MASS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- cG
- Commons category
- NGC 76
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2860524158453553536
- epoch
- J2000.0
- redshift
- 0.024647
- discoverer or inventor
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-09-22
- apparent magnitude
- 10.060
- right ascension
- 4.90745291979860
- declination
- 29.93386375474970
- radial velocity
- 7323
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 76 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan from France in 1884 and its magnitude is 13.1.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q742543” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.