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Q510932
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elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 21 22.399
- Declination
- +22 ° 26 ′ 01.11 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,150 ± 16 km/s
- Distance
- 289.42 ± 25.92 Mly (88.736 ± 7.948 Mpc )
- Type
- E
- Size
- 138,400 ly (42.42 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.5′ × 1.5′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy group
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 84.98
- Image
- NGC83 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 83
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2800747181584910592
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-08-17
- redshift
- 0.021421
- apparent magnitude
- 9.295
- right ascension
- 5.34337653194630
- declination
- 22.43359999810310
- radial velocity
- 6353
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 83 is an elliptical galaxy estimated to be about 260 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 17 August 1828, and its apparent magnitude is 14.2.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q510932” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.