Q942214
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 22 36 03.56
- Declination
- +33 ° 58 ′ 32.7 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,740 km/s
- Distance
- 311 Mly (95.3 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)bc pec
- Size
- 25.09 kiloparsecs (81,800 light-years ) (diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote )
- Apparent size v
- 1′.7 × 1′.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 90.75
- Image
- NGC 7319.jpg
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- catalog code
- PBC J2236.0+3358
- radial velocity
- 6611
- Commons category
- NGC 7319
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1876-09-23
- apparent magnitude
- 12.908
- galaxy morphological type
- SB
- redshift
- 0.0225
- right ascension
- 339.0150090
- declination
- 33.9758820
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7319 is a highly distorted barred spiral galaxy that is a member of the compact Stephan's Quintet group located in the constellation Pegasus, some 311 megalight-years distant from the Milky Way. It was discovered on 27 September 1873 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan.
The galaxy's arms, dust and gas have been highly disturbed as a result of the interaction with the other members of the Quintet. Nearly all of the neutral hydrogen has been stripped from this galaxy, most likely as a result of a collision with NGC 7320c some 100 million years ago. A pair of long, parallel tidal tails extend southward from NGC 7319 in the direction of NGC 7320c, and is undergoing star formation.
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