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Q34312
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 08 47.72
- Declination
- +33 ° 26 ′ 00.0 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4808 ± 9 km/s
- Distance
- 215.8 ± 15.1 Mly (66.15 ± 4.64 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 19.76
- Type
- (R)Sab:
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 ′ × 0.4 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 65.43
- Image
- NGC13 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 13
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2875640725349020544
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-11-26
- redshift
- 0.015974
- apparent magnitude
- 9.746
- right ascension
- 2.19881215233770
- declination
- 33.43332691548140
- radial velocity
- 4751
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 13 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be about 220 million light-years (66 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It was discovered on November 26, 1790, by William Herschel.
NGC 7831 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q34312” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.