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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
00 42 15.9
Declination
+00 ° 50 ′ 44 ″
Distance
238 Mly
Apparent magnitude v
14.0g
Type
SB0
Apparent size v
0.42' × 0.29'

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
76
Image
NGC 0223 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 2549327252140557952
discoverer or inventor
George Phillips Bond
time of discovery or invention
1853-01-05
redshift
0.017862
apparent magnitude
12.357
galaxy morphological type
3
Commons category
NGC 223
right ascension
10.56615316543340
declination
0.84548589777970
radial velocity
5312
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 223 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 238 million light-years from Earth. It is located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on January 5, 1853, by George Bond.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 223” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.