Key facts
- Right ascension
- 00 45 24.1
- Declination
- −73 ° 22 ′ 44.4 ″
- Distance
- 200,000 ly
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Radius
- 30x10 ly
- Designations
- LHA 115-N 13, DEM S 16
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 248 is an emission nebula in the constellation Tucana. It is in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered in 1834 by the astronomer John Frederick William Herschel. NGC 248 is about 60 light-years long and 20 light-years wide.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1035876” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.