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Q754072
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 18 38.98029
- Declination
- −15 ° 19 ′ 20.6128 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7631 km/s
- Distance
- 289.4 Mly (88.72 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 85.93
- Image
- NGC 0073 2MASS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 4.66241785664880
- declination
- -15.32239243147010
- Commons category
- NGC 73
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2416781537729189120
- redshift
- 0.025891
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-10-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.895
- radial velocity
- 7631
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NGC 73 is an intermediate spiral galaxy estimated to be about 350 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift from the USA in 1886 and its apparent magnitude is 13.7.
Image from 2MASS
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