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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 248 is referenced by 811 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), Tucana and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, Emission nebulae and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Image
- NGC 248.png
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- catalog code
- OGLE-CL SMC 26
- Commons category
- NGC 248
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-04-11
- right ascension
- 11.350292
- declination
- -73.379000
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 248” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Connections
list of NGC objects (1–1000)
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Tucana
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47 Tucanae
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NGC 241
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NGC 945
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constellation
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nebula
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Andromeda Galaxy
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radius
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exoplanet
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Hydrus
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star cluster
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right ascension
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Triangulum Galaxy
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