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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
AG?
Redshift
z = 0.01884715915680757
Morphology
SBbc
Coordinates
RA 28.6894° · Dec 39.3835°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
01 54 45.45687
Declination
+39 ° 23 ′ 00.7702 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5514 km/s
Distance
182.6 Mly (55.98 Mpc )
Type
SB(rs)bc

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Andromeda
Distance from Earth
56.5
Image
NGC 0721 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 344007437094578304
time of discovery or invention
1862-08-27
discoverer or inventor
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
redshift
0.018566
apparent magnitude
10.436
radial velocity
5594
galaxy morphological type
SBb
right ascension
28.68940362074670
declination
39.38354730548450
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 721
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 721 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 250 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the Prussian astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest in 1862.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 721” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.