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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Aries
Right ascension
02 08 24.97482
Declination
+14 ° 20 ′ 58.5388 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4395 km/s
Distance
213.5 Mly (65.46 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 820 Group (LGG 48)
Type
Sb
Size
~82,900 ly (25.42 kpc ) (estimated)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Aries
Distance from Earth
64.03
Image
NGC 0820 SDSS.jpg
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radial velocity
4395
catalog code
Gaia DR2 77444792992754304
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1828-09-07
apparent magnitude
11.958
galaxy morphological type
Sb
Commons category
NGC 820
right ascension
32.10406176621480
declination
14.34959412125230
redshift
0.01481
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 820 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 210 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 7 September 1828.

NGC 820 Group

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 820” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.