Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 39.6
- Declination
- 36 ° 10 ′ 17 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5580 km/s
- Distance
- 240 Mly (73 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- S0^-
- Size
- ~82,000 ly (25 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.9
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 75.34
- Image
- NGC 0703 DSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 342300995047663360
- redshift
- 0.015851
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.884
- Commons category
- NGC 703
- right ascension
- 28.16494673712490
- declination
- 36.17136337540720
- radial velocity
- 4984
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 703 is a lenticular galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786 and is also a member of Abell 262.
NGC 703 is classified as a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 703” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.