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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.017659
Coordinates
RA 33.2624° · Dec -42.0335°
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Key facts

Constellation
Phoenix
Right ascension
02 13 02.98434
Declination
−42 ° 02 ′ 00.6071 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5247 km/s
Distance
236.7 Mly (72.57 Mpc )
Type
E

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 862 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Phoenix about 241 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1834.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 862” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.