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NGC 750

galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 750 is referenced by 812 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Triangulum, NGC 751 and list of NGC objects (1–1000).

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Discoveries by William Herschel and Elliptical galaxies.

Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation: Triangulum
Right ascension: 01 57 32.70
Declination: +33 ° 12 ′ 33.00 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 5171 ± 8 km/s
Distance: 225 M ly
Type: E pec
Apparent size v: 1.6 x 1.3

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: elliptical galaxy
Constellation: Triangulum
Distance from Earth: 72.1
Image: NGC 0750 SDSS.jpg

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epoch: J2000.0
discoverer or inventor: William Herschel
time of discovery or invention: 1784-09-12
redshift: 0.017249
catalog code: LEDA 7369
right ascension: 29.3864167
apparent magnitude: 8.562
galaxy morphological type: E
Commons category: NGC 750
declination: 33.2092361
radial velocity: 5130

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 750 is an elliptical galaxy approximately 225 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Triangulum. It forms a close pair of interacting galaxies together with the nearby NGC 751 galaxy. The pair is listed as Arp 166 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (in the category Galaxies with diffuse filaments).

Close pair of interacting galaxies NGC 750 (top) and NGC 751 (bottom) (SDSS)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 750” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.