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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 56 22.685
Declination
−09 ° 03 ′ 41.15 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1641.2 km/s
Distance
69 Mly (21.3 Mpc )
Absolute magnitude v
− 18.27
Type
SBcd

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
19
Image
NGC 0755 SDSS.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1785-01-10
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
catalog code
LEDA 7262
redshift
0.005477
galaxy morphological type
SBcd
apparent magnitude
12.205
Commons category
NGC 755
right ascension
29.0945208
declination
-9.0614306
radial velocity
1633
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 755 is an emission line spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy's velocity of 1641.2 km/s was used to calculate its distance using the Tully–Fisher relation. Its dark matter halo was found to be core-dominated, in agreement with predictions from the lambda-CDM model of cosmology.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 755” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.