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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Triangulum
Right ascension
02 15 51.146
Declination
+35 ° 54 ′ 48.89 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8058 km/s
Distance
360.7 Mly (110.59 Mpc )
Type
Sb

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 861 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 360 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 165,000 light-years. The object was discovered on September 18, 1865 by Heinrich d'Arrest.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 861” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.