NGC 846
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barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 02 12 12.60
- Declination
- +44 ° 34 ′ 05.0 ″
- Redshift
- 0.017065 ± 2.60e-5
- Distance
- 235 Mly (72.26 M pc )
- Type
- SB(rs)ab
- Size
- 162,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 1.95′ × 1.698′
- Notable features
- N/A
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0846 DSS.jpg
- Said to be same as
- NGC 847
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 846
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-11-22
- radial velocity
- 5116
- catalog code
- LEDA 8430
- redshift
- 0.017072
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- apparent magnitude
- 9.088
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- right ascension
- 33.0512625
- declination
- 44.5683361
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 846 (also known as NGC 847) is a barred spiral galaxy located around 235 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 846 was discovered on November 22nd, 1876 by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan, and it has a diameter of around 162,000 light-years. NGC 846 is not known to have much star-formation, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 846” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.