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Object Information

NGC864

Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

This is a barred spiral galaxy which sits about 70 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar.
Distance: 689,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 40,600,000,000,000,000,000 km.