Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 57 50.3
- Declination
- 36 ° 20 ′ 35 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4667 km/s
- Distance
- 230 Mly (70.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~110,000 ly (33 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 × 1.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 63.12
- Image
- NGC 0759 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- [DC78] UGC 1440
- Commons category
- NGC 759
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-17
- apparent magnitude
- 9.139
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- redshift
- 0.000143
- right ascension
- 29.4596917
- declination
- 36.3431028
- radial velocity
- 5108
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 759 is an elliptical galaxy located 230 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 759 was discovered by astronomer by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 17, 1865. It is a member of Abell 262.
Despite being classified as a radio galaxy, the radio emission in NGC 759 could be due to star formation rather than an active galactic nucleus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 759” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.