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Q515295
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 18 22.55
- Declination
- +30 04 43.4
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7167 km/s
- Distance
- 320-325 Mly
- Type
- Sb Sbc SA(rs)c
- Size
- ~200,000 ly (60.48 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- ~1.7'x1.4'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 96.86
- Image
- N70s-crop.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.023890
- Commons category
- NGC 70
- catalog code
- SDSS J001822.57+300446.3
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- time of discovery or invention
- 1855-10-07
- apparent magnitude
- 9.665
- right ascension
- 4.594050
- declination
- 30.0795417
- radial velocity
- 7141
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 70 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 7, 1855, by R. J. Mitchell and was observed on December 19, 1897, by Guillaume Bigourdan from France who described it as "extremely faint, very small, round, between 2 faint stars".
NGC 70 hosts a Seyfert Type II Active galactic nucleus (AGN).
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