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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 31 42.103
Declination
−00 ° 55 ′ 58.46 ″
Redshift
0.018 12 ± 0.000 06
Heliocentric radial velocity
5,431.040930 ± 18.886927
Distance
246.8 ± 17.3 kly (75.66 ± 5.31 kpc ) h , 0.73
Type
Sa (edge on)

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 585 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, which is about 245 million light-years from the Milky Way's center. The object was discovered on December 20, 1827, by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 585” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.