Key facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21 11 52.0
- Declination
- −49 ° 17 ′ 01 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,839 km/s
- Distance
- 118.7 Mly
- Type
- E6
- Size
- ~128,979.48 ly
- Apparent size v
- 2.6 x 1.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Indus
- Distance from Earth
- 36.37
- Image
- NGC 7029.jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6478874190816800640
- radial velocity
- 2839
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-02
- apparent magnitude
- 8.540
- redshift
- 0.009323
- Commons category
- NGC 7029
- right ascension
- 317.96678850409850
- declination
- -49.28369951988490
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7029 is an elliptical galaxy located about 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Indus. NGC 7029 has an estimated diameter of 129,000 light-years. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on October 10, 1834. It is in a pair of galaxies with NGC 7022.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 7029: SN 2023qov (type Ia, mag. 17.5).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7029” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.