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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 00 12 56.361
- Declination
- +22 ° 06 ′ 01.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5914 km/s
- Distance
- 263.2 Mly (80.70 Mpc )
- Type
- S0 :
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 42 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered on October 30, 1864, by the German astronomer Albert Marth. It may be gravitationally interacting with the nearby NGC 41.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q49648” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.