Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 17 17.3
- Declination
- 41 ° 23 ′ 08 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5816 km/s
- Distance
- 243 Mly (74.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~83,400 ly (25.58 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.7 x 0.4
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1259 is a lenticular galaxy located about 243 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 21, 1884 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1259” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.