Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 57 42.2104
- Declination
- +35 ° 54 ′ 58.262 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4863 km/s
- Distance
- 220 Mly (67 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc
- Size
- ~148,000 ly (45.39 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.5′ × 1.9′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 66.25
- Image
- PanSTARRS NGC 753.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 330317246017979264
- right ascension
- 29.42585100187450
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-16
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- declination
- 35.91603146517830
- apparent magnitude
- 9.374
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.016355
- Commons category
- NGC 753
- radial velocity
- 4766
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 753 is a spiral galaxy located 220 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 16, 1865 and is a member of Abell 262.
NGC 753 has roughly 2-3 times more mass than the Milky Way and is classified as a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 753” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.