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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 54 56.208
Declination
−09 ° 00 ′ 38.90 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3875 km/s
Distance
172 Mly (52.7 Mpc )
Type
E, cD:

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 731 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus about 172 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by William Herschel on January 10, 1785. It has a luminosity of 3.9×10 L☉.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 731” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.