NGC 880

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NGC 880
NGC880 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 880
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 02h 18m 27.253s [1]
Declination −04° 12′ 19.44″ [1]
Redshift 0.041656 [2]
Helio radial velocity 12228 km/s [2]
Distance 586.9 ± 41.1  Mly (179.93 ± 12.61  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)15.11 [2]
Apparent magnitude  (B)15.61 [2]
Characteristics
Type S? [4]
Other designations
PGC 8805 [2]

NGC 880 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 590 million light-years from the Milky Way. [3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886. [5] [6]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "NGC 880". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. 1 2 "Results for object NGC 0880 (NGC 880)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
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  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 880 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
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