Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 46.4467
- Declination
- +36 ° 09 ′ 06.581 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4762 km/s
- Distance
- 232.05 ± 16.32 Mly (71.147 ± 5.005 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~200,000 ly (62 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.0′ × 2.5′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 708 is an elliptical galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786. It is classified as a cD galaxy and is the brightest member of Abell 262. NGC 708 is a weak FR I radio galaxy and is also classified as a type 2 Seyfert galaxy.
NGC 708 is surrounded by 4,700 globular clusters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1253146” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.