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EntityQ1036335· pop 37· linked from 892 articles

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
01 07 15.7
Declination
32 ° 31 ′ 13 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5,578 km/s
Distance
195.5 million ly (59.944 mpc )
Type
S0
Apparent size v
1.4 × 0.7

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 379 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on September 12, 1784 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "pretty faint, small, round, brighter middle".

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 379” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.